Mayor to Speak about Police Misconduct at City Council
via Chicago Tribune
“Mayor Rahm Emanuel will take the rare step Wednesday of delivering a speech on Chicago’s woeful police misconduct record to the City Council, which has approved hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements for victims of police brutality while demanding little change in how the department operates.
The City Council’s toothless approach on Chicago’s long history of police corruption reflects the top-down nature of how things run at City Hall — the mayor, whether it be Emanuel or his predecessor Richard M. Daley, has called the shots and the aldermen follow suit with little, if any, resistance.
Since 2004, Emanuel and Daley’s administrations have recommended the City Council approve scores of settlements for police shootings and other wrongdoing, totaling more than $500 million in payments to victims and their families, officials say. And while they have rubber-stamped those checks in recent years, aldermen have shown little initiative to take legislative action on police reforms.”
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