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The Chicago Police Department has the weakest oversight in the country of officers working second jobs as private security guards, and the consequences can be both deadly and costly to taxpayers.
We’ve combed through the full text of the DOJ’s civil rights investigation of the Chicago Police Department to highlight key excerpts and new data, and to provide context to the findings.
Activists are targeting provisions that shield officers from accountability for reform but the process is unlikely to be easy, or cheap.
Year after year, Chicago spends much more than planned on police payouts and relies on costly borrowing to make up the difference.
The city avoided competitive bidding in its contract for cameras, which could cost taxpayers over $30 million for technology that has yet to be shown to curb misconduct.
Ald. Gilbert Villegas is proposing a measure he says would protect taxpayers from bearing some of the excess costs of police misconduct lawsuit settlements.
An attorney for teens shot by Marco Proano says a dashcam video, which was first released publicly by the Reporter, helped differentiate this case from hundreds of other police shootings in the past decade.
Existing laws shield reports from public view under the mayor’s plan to overhaul police accountability.
Better training could help police officers avoid interactions that could have a lasting negative impact on children’s development.
The agency’s efforts may be too little, too late as City Hall makes plans to scrap IPRA and start over with a new police oversight board.