The installation of the Reverend Cass Shaw as president and CEO of The Council of Churches of Greater Bridgeport at First Congregational Church in Fairfield, Conn. on Sunday, September 15, 2013. Cass Shaw, the outgoing head of the Council of Churches of Greater Bridgeport, opposed Mayor Joe Ganim's decision in 2018 to select his close friend Perez from among three finalists to run the police department. Shaw and others argued Perez was unqualified and too politically connected to be a good manager and to pursue reforms to clean up the force.