Mayor Brandon Johnson's choice to head COPA vows to rebuild police and public's trust in the oversight agency

Mayor Brandon Johnson's choice to head COPA vows to rebuild police and public's trust in the oversight agency

COPA's acting chief administrator, LaKenya White, used her confirmation hearing Friday to outline her plan to rebuild trust in an oversight agency that officers view as a deck stacked against them — and that everyday Chicagoans don’t trust to punish police wrongdoing.

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s choice to head COPA vows to rebuild police and public’s trust in the oversight agency

When a nationwide search ended with the nomination of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability’s acting chief administrator as the agency’s permanent chief, it looked like a repeat of a familiar Chicago story, in which an insider who doesn’t make waves gets retained. But 25-year-veteran LaKenya White used her confirmation hearing Friday to dispel the notion that she got the job in order to maintain the status quo. White told the Police and F…