Justice Department Probes Chicago Police For Civil Rights Violations
The Justice Department will examine a Chicago military for probable polite rights violations, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Monday morning.
As a second largest force in a nation, Chicago’s will be a biggest city dialect a Attorney General’s bureau has ever investigated (Puerto Rico’s
The review will concentration on a secular and racial disparities involving a Chicago Police Department’s use of force, use of lethal force and its’s systems of accountability, Lynch said.
“Our idea in this investigation, as in all of a pattern-or-practice investigations, is not to concentration on individuals, though to urge systems,” Lynch said. “To safeguard that officers are being supposing with a collection they need — including training, process superintendence and apparatus — to be some-more effective, to partner with civilians and to strengthen open safety.”Â
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan wrote to Lynch Dec. 1 to urgently requestÂ
Madigan’s call for a DOJ examine came only days after a justice sequence forced a city of Chicago to release dashboard camera footage
The FBI, a Justice Department and a Independent Police Review Authority are all reviewing a McDonald case, including claims that military tampered with surveillance video