Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn says he’s retiring.
Flynn announced his departure Monday at a news conference, saying “it’s time.”
Flynn has been chief for 10 years, and leaves with two years left in his current term.
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His retirement comes just days before he was to have his annual evaluation. And it comes as a majority of Milwaukee Common Council members have been pushing for residents to have a greater role in the police and fire chief positions.
Flynn steered the department through rioting that followed the 2016 shooting of a black man, Sylville Smith, by a black officer on the city’s north side. He was also chief in 2014 when a white officer, Christopher Manney, shot and killed a mentally ill black man, Dontre Hamilton, in a city park.
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