Post by Logan on May 14, 2016 3:58:12 GMT -6
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Friday that he is abolishing the agency that currently investigates police misconduct and replacing it with a civilian department that he said will have more independence and resources to do its work.
Emanuel's announcement came a month after a task force recommended the move in a report that said police in the nation's third-largest city have "no regard for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of color" and have alienated blacks and Hispanics for decades by using excessive force and honoring a code of silence. The Task Force on Police Accountability had recommended replacing the "badly broken" Independent Police Review Authority, or IPRA, with a "new and fully transparent and accountable Civilian Police Investigative Agency."
IPRA had been criticized for slow investigations of complaints that seldom led to discipline.
"It is clear that a totally new agency is required to rebuild trust in investigations of officer-involved shootings and the most serious allegations of police misconduct," Emanuel wrote Friday in an essay published by the Chicago Sun-Times (http://bit.ly/27lkXrS ) announcing the change.
Read more: www.qconline.com/news/illinois/chicago-replacing-agency-that-reviews-police-misconduct/article_773e29c6-7820-5c00-9f89-7f68f58db04e.html
Emanuel's announcement came a month after a task force recommended the move in a report that said police in the nation's third-largest city have "no regard for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of color" and have alienated blacks and Hispanics for decades by using excessive force and honoring a code of silence. The Task Force on Police Accountability had recommended replacing the "badly broken" Independent Police Review Authority, or IPRA, with a "new and fully transparent and accountable Civilian Police Investigative Agency."
IPRA had been criticized for slow investigations of complaints that seldom led to discipline.
"It is clear that a totally new agency is required to rebuild trust in investigations of officer-involved shootings and the most serious allegations of police misconduct," Emanuel wrote Friday in an essay published by the Chicago Sun-Times (http://bit.ly/27lkXrS ) announcing the change.
Read more: www.qconline.com/news/illinois/chicago-replacing-agency-that-reviews-police-misconduct/article_773e29c6-7820-5c00-9f89-7f68f58db04e.html