Jody Weis

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| name = Jody P. Weis

| image = Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis (3862286581) (1).jpg

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|office = 60th Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department

|term_start = February 1, 2008

|term_end = March 1, 2011

|appointed = Richard M. Daley

|predecessor = Phil Cline

|successor = Terry G. Hillard (interim)

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|12|10|mf=y}}

|birth_place = Fort Myers, Florida, U.S.

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Jody Peter "J.P." Weis (born December 10, 1957) is an American retired police officer who served as the Superintendent of Police for the Chicago Police Department. Weis was selected to serve as the 54th Superintendent of Police by Mayor Richard M. Daley. Upon his resignation and retirement, he was replaced by Interim Superintendent Terry Hillard, a predecessor. He was permanently replaced by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who named Garry McCarthy to the post. Superintendent Weis, when he became Superintendent, had replaced former Superintendent of Police Philip J. Cline after his resignation. Superintendent Weis took office on February 1, 2008.

Weis's previous experience included 22 years in the Federal Bureau of Investigation.{{cite press release |title=Chicago Police Superintendent Jody P. Weis Officially Takes Oath of Office: 60th Police Superintendent Sworn in at Chicago Police Headquarters |url=http://www.chicagopolice.org/MailingList/PressAttachment/oath.pdf |publisher=Chicago Police Department |date=February 10, 2008 |access-date=July 11, 2009}} Weis graduated from the University of Tampa in 1979.{{cite press release |title=Biography of Jody P. Weis, Superintendent of Police, Chicago Police Department |url=https://portal.chicagopolice.org/portal/page/portal/ClearPath/About%20CPD/Bureaus/WeisBio.pdf |publisher=Chicago Police Department |access-date=February 7, 2010 |format=PDF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725164103/https://portal.chicagopolice.org/portal/page/portal/ClearPath/About%20CPD/Bureaus/WeisBio.pdf |archive-date=July 25, 2011 }}

On March 17, 2009, a few months after the Chicago lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police announced that they would be funding the defense of Cmdr. Jon Burge,{{cite web |url=http://chicagoist.com/2008/12/05/burge_defense_to_be_paid_by_fop.php |title=Burge Defense to be Paid by F.O.P.: Chicagoist |access-date=2012-08-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228191145/http://chicagoist.com/2008/12/05/burge_defense_to_be_paid_by_fop.php |archive-date=2014-12-28 }} the lodge produced a vote of no-confidence in Weis.{{cite news |title=Jody Weis gets no-confidence vote |first=Angela |last=Rozas |url=http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/03/jody-weis-vote-fraternal-order-of-police.html |newspaper=Chicago Breaking News Center |publisher=Tribune Company |location=Chicago |date=March 17, 2009 |access-date=February 7, 2010}}

A 2012 audit by the Chicago Inspector General determined that the Chicago Police Department had under-counted aggravated assault and aggravated battery victims by 25 percent by not following state guidelines by counting each incident rather than each victim.[http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/26693217-418/chicago-police-underreported-number-of-2012-assaults-audit-finds.html#.U1dEFspOWmQ Chicago Sun Times "Chicago Police underreported number of 2012 aggravated assault and battery, audit finds" BY FRANK MAIN AND STEFANO ESPOSITO] April 7, 2014[https://www.chicagotribune.com/2014/04/07/inspector-general-chicago-police-underreported-aggravated-assaults-batteries-in-2012/ Chicago Tribune: "Inspector General: Chicago police underreported aggravated assaults, batteries in 2012" by Jeremy Gorner] April 07, 2014[http://chicagoinspectorgeneral.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/OIG-Crime-Stats-Audit.pdf REPORT OF THE OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL: "CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT ASSAULT-RELATED CRIME STATISTICS CLASSIFICATION AND REPORTING AUDIT] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160212215101/http://chicagoinspectorgeneral.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/OIG-Crime-Stats-Audit.pdf |date=2016-02-12 }} APRIL 2014 Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy attributed the error to the administration of his predecessor, Jody Weis.