Watch out, Aurora — radicals are coming for your police chief.
Aurora’s new council just voted 6–4 to muzzle APD, forcing police to run social media posts and press releases through City Hall before you see them. At the same time, DACAC and its national allies are pushing a “community control” board with power over APD policy, discipline, budget, and hiring — it’s already passed first reading and will become law at the next meeting. Incredibly, it will sit under a public safety committee chaired by Rob Andrews, who pled guilty to DUI and starts 10 days of home detention next week.
Crime is finally dropping under Chief Chamberlain, and the response from this progressive majority is to gag him, build boards to overrule him, and hand real power to a radical minority. That cannot be what the true majority of Aurora wants.