Police Chief Is Fired After Rocky Tenure
Dallas Police Chief Terrell Bolton was fired, ending a four-year tenure marked by the nation’s worst big-city crime rate and a scandal over fake drugs allegedly planted on suspects.
Some supporters of Bolton, the city’s first black police chief, alleged that race entered into the decision, a contention city officials denied.
City Manager Ted Benavides said he fired Bolton, effective immediately, because “after four years, I just thought it was time to go in a new direction.”
Benavides said there was no one cause, but “an accumulation of issues.”
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