llinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Friday announced a draft consent decree that will be part of federal court oversight of sweeping reforms to the city’s troubled police department.
The announcement came nearly one year after the state attorney general filed a lawsuit asking a federal court to stop the city’s police department from engaging in what the lawsuit claimed was a “pattern of using excessive force” and other discriminatory misconduct against Chicago’s African-American and Latino residents.
Consent decrees involving police departments are court-enforced settlements aimed at reforming departments where Justice Department civil rights investigations found evidence of a “pattern or practice” of biased policing on a wide scale.
Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President Kevin Graham joined Dan and Amy to share his reaction to the draft consent decree: