Chicago to Implement Some—But Not All—Police Reforms

[Eugene]

Source: Time

Josh Sanburn 1:42 PM ET

Mayor agrees to a third of task force recommendations

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel will implement some reforms to the city’s police department in response to a damning report that found officer mistreatment of minorities, but he does not plan to make immediate wholesale changes to how the department operates.

Emanuel announced Thursday that he would implement almost a third of the recommendations from a task force that investigated the police department’s conduct toward African-American residents, including more meetings with black communities, increased training to address implicit bias, and expanded use of Tasers and body cameras.

“As a city, we cannot rest until we fully address the systemic issues facing the Chicago Police Department, and the steps announced today build on our road to reform,” Emanuel said in a statement on Thursday,

The 25 measures announced on Thursday by the mayor and new police superintendent Eddie Johnson also include expediting the public release of evidence after police shootings and reforming the Independent Police Review Authority, which has come under criticism for not properly investigating complaints of officer misconduct.

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Read more: http://time.com/4303519/chicago-police-reforms-task-force/

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Source: Associated Press

Changes due for Chicago police; mayor keeps review authority

By Don Babwin?|?AP April 21 at 12:00 PM

CHICAGO — Chicago’s police department will implement suggested changes to the way police-involved shootings and police misconduct are investigated, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Thursday, but will stop short of a task force recommendation to abolish the agency that handles those investigations.

The city will create a new Public Safety Auditor as well as a “role for citizen oversight,” the mayor’s office said in a news release, but did not include specifics.

The changes stem from last week’s report from the mayor-created police accountability task force, which harshly criticized the nation’s third largest police force for decades of mistreatment of minorities and a code of silence that protects brutal officers. One of the most dramatic recommendations was to abolish the “badly broken” Independent Police Review Authority — or IPRA — with a new, fully transparent Civilian Police Investigative Agency.

The mayor did not rule out abolishing IPRA in his news release, but he also didn’t spell out the future of the agency that critics have called ineffective and a big reason why many in the city’s communities do not trust the police force.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/chicago-mayor-city-implementing-recommendations-for-police/2016/04/21/26581218-07b3-11e6-bfed-ef65dff5970d_story.html

[Wellstone ruled]

1. You darn well these so called reforms will

be instituted in mostly Caucasian neighborhoods.

[hobbit709]

2. That's some of that "incrementalism"

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. Well, it's good to only implement some changes ...

... then if things don't improve, there's a reason to point at, and a reason to form a new committee.

Or, maybe it's easier to measure results if you limit the changes at each increment.

Or, maybe the changes cost money.

[Akicita]

4. What is wrong with the people of Chicago? Why hasn't that guy been run out of town since his police

shooting cover up was exposed?

[surrealAmerican]

5. He managed to delay the exposure of that episode ...

... until after the election.

Charming right?

[Akicita]

6. So? Why haven't they surrounded city hall and forced him to go?