Chase Blue Code of Silence Wherever it May Go
via Chicago Sun-Times
“As the U.S. Justice Department embarks on a civil rights investigation of the Chicago Police, we urge the feds to emphasize the word ‘Chicago’ as fully as the word ‘police.’
If the Chicago Police Department is, indeed, guilty of patterns and practices that cause cops to violate the rights of citizens, particularly in their use of deadly force, there is no reason to exclude from scrutiny other city departments that might, intentionally or unwittingly, be aiding and abetting that bad behavior.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel sees it differently, but we can’t help think he’ll come around. He has circled the wagons before at City Hall as this police scandal has unfolded, only to shift to a more open embrace of accountability and reform as reality hit him over the head. The mayor was dead set against firing his police superintendent, Garry McCarthy, until the moment he fired him. He opposed a federal probe of the Police Department until it became obvious it was coming anyway.”
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