5 reasons why Chief Grissom will be a terrible commissioner

2. His loyalty is fleeting

To take a page out of the book of Chicago PD, while a character in One Chicago can have some questionable morals but still be successful (we’re looking at you, Hank Voight), characters without loyalty are paper tigers. And Carl Grissom doesn’t seem to have any loyalty, and he certainly isn’t going to get any from our heroes.

Yes, he has a longstanding relationship with both Severide and his father Benny Severide (Treat Williams), and he was influential in Severide’s career at some point—maybe sometime in the past he was a kinder, gentler Grissom. But that man obviously does not exist now.

As we mentioned in the last slide, Grissom easily turned on Severide when Severide decided that he didn’t want to follow Grissom’s advice, and even moreso when Severide backed Boden for the commissioner’s job. If that’s any example of how he treats friends and colleagues, everyone is only good to him for as long as they’re good to him.

He’s not that loyal, and there’s no way anyone at Firehouse 51 is going to be loyal to him now that they know how he’s falsified all those records and how he’s acted around them this past season. It is a huge problem, because how can you be the head honcho of any organization when the people underneath don’t trust you as far as they can throw you?