Chicago Police Accountability Task Force

The Chicago Police Accountability Task Force is "a task force to review the system of accountability, oversight and training that is currently in place for Chicago’s police officers."[1] it was announced via press release on December 1, 2015[1] and was created in the wake of the shooting of Laquan McDonald, and the protests and political fallout afterward.[2] On April 13, 2016 the task force released their final report which found "racism and systemic failures in the city's police force, validating complaints made for years by African-American residents."[3]

Members

The members of the task force include:[4][5]

Public community forums

The task force held 4 public community forums in February 2016 and one press event in April 2016 and published the meetings on YouTube.[6][7]

Final report


The final report used Chicago police data to show that African-Americans were regularly and disproportionately abused and denied rights, which had been reported by many African-American residents of Chicago over many years.[8][9][10] Chicago's population is approximately one-third black, hispanic and white and according to the report, 404 people were shot by the Chicago police between 2008 and 2015 and 74 percent of those were African-American.[8] According to the New York Times, the final report "was blistering, blunt and backed up by devastating statistics."[8]

Reactions

As a result of the report, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that he would be implementing roughly one-third of the 76 recommendations in the report.[11][12]

Dean Angelo, the president of Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7,[13] declared the accusation of racism in the Chicago Police Department “biased.”[14] Lori Lightfoot, who was on the task force responded to Angelo[15] "It is hard to fathom that Mr. Angelo maintains his reflexive, uninformed position when it is obviously belied by the facts. Does he really believe that a better trained, better prepared and more professional police force will not inure to the benefit of his members?"[16]

External links

References

  1. 1 2 "City of Chicago :: Mayor Emanuel Announces Task Force on Police Accountability". Cityofchicago.org. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  2. ↑ "Unpacking the Police Accountability Task Force Report". Wbez.org. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  3. ↑ "Chicago Police Accountability Task Force Report". The New York Times. 13 April 2016. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  4. ↑ "Meet the members of Emanuel's new police accountability task force". WGN-TV. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  5. ↑ "Chicago City Police Task Force Members". Chicagopatf.org. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  6. ↑ Chicago Police Accountability Task Force. YouTube. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  7. ↑ "EVENTS : TASK FORCE COMMUNITY FORUMS". Chicagopatf.org. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  8. 1 2 3 "Chicago Police Dept. Plagued by Systemic Racism, Task Force Finds". The New York Times. 14 April 2016.
  9. ↑ "Inside the Chicago Police Department's race problem". PBS NewsHour. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  10. ↑ "Chicago police reforms". The Economist. 23 April 2016. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  11. ↑ "Chicago Police Department will implement task force reforms". ABC7 Chicago. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  12. ↑ Josh Sanburn. "Chicago Police Reforms: Mayor Makes Some Changes but Not All". TIME.com. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  13. ↑ "FOP President Dean Angelo Responds to Task Force Recommendations". Chicago Tonight - WTTW. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  14. ↑ "Police union: Low morale will crater following 'biased' report". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  15. ↑ "Lori Lightfoot: Dean Angelo 'Misses the Mark' on Task Force Recommendations". Chicago Tonight - WTTW. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  16. ↑ "Fraternal Order Letter" (PDF). Chicagotonight.wttw.com. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
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