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Acting assistant police chief credits mother's influence

By Steve Bauer
Sunday September 23, 2007

Robin Scholz

Anthony Cobb, acting assistant chief of the Urbana Police Department, talks to attendees at a town meeting Sept. 6 at New Hope Church of God in Christ in Champaign held to discuss youth and police relations in Champaign-Urbana.

Anthony Cobb, who grew up in Champaign, said his mother's discipline at home was the biggest influence in his life, including how he works as a policeman.

"My mom didn't play," said Cobb, who was promoted a little more than a year ago to command the patrol division for the Urbana Police Department.

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