PERSON: Edward Flynn

Milwaukee Police Department

Chief

Edward A. Flynn (born 1948) is an American law enforcement executive. From 2008 until 2018, Flynn served as chief of the Milwaukee Police Department. Prior to assuming that position, he served as secretary of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security and as police commissioner in Springfield, Massachusetts. Flynn was reappointed twice to the position of Milwaukee police chief before retiring in early 2018.

Flynn grew up in Brielle, New Jersey, the only child of Edward, a paralyzed World War II veteran who died when Flynn was 12, and Constance, who worked part-time at the local library. Flynn attended St. Catherine’s School in nearby Spring Lake, then graduated from high school at Christian Brothers Academy in Lincroft in 1966.

Flynn earned a B.A. in history from La Salle University in 1970 and a master’s degree in criminal justice from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in 1976.

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