Vanessa Wilson’s exit was leaked in advance.
The Aurora Police Department has been in crisis for years, and it’s currently operating under a consent decree issued by the Colorado Attorney General’s office, which determined in 2021 that the APD has exhibited a pattern of racial bias. Yet even many critics of the department gave high marks to Aurora Police Chief Vanessa Wilson — who took the job on an interim basis in December 2019 before being hired on a “permanently” in August 2020 — for her efforts to address the department’s issues with clear-eyed determination.…