Superintendent Joseph Kipley (November 25, 1848 – February 6, 1904) was Head of the Chicago Police Department from 1897 to 1901.

He was named Inspector and then an Assistant Superintendent, but when George Bell Swift was elected mayor of Chicago in 1895, Kipley no longer had a position in the department.

[4] For the next two years, Kipley organized the Star League, a political group consisting of former Chicago police officers.

Kipley was appointed Chief of Police of Chicago by Mayor Carter Harrison IV in 1897.

"[5] The Ice Pond Mystery, a detective novel written by Kipley as a police lieutenant, was published posthumously by the J.S.