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Thursday, December 3, 2015

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: We need an independent People's Task Force in Chicago

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: We need an independent People's Task Force in Chicago:

We need an independent People's Task Force in Chicago

I'm all for the call by A.G. Lisa Madigan,  for a federal civil rights investigation of the Chicago PD and City Hall's ongoing cover-up of recent police killings. I'm glad to see that the call to bring in the feds is gaining broad support, including most recently from a group of retired African-American police officers and from (get this) Hillary Clinton.

The mayor's proposed Task Force is a farce and its members should be ashamed to have agreed to take part in this charade.

Even a federal investigation is not adequate. While Obama's Justice Dept. has stepped up investigations of big-city police departments -- at least, compared to Bush's DOJ -- results have been too slow in coming and there's little or no transparency in the process. 
The current ongoing federal investigation in Chicago of theLaquan McDonald murder has even been used by Anita Alvarez and Rahm Emanuelas an excuse for not releasing the video of the shooting. And for not telling us that officerJason Van Dykehad been accused of misconduct 18 times before he killed Laquan.

Plus, the feds have spent monthsin Ferguson as well as in 
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: We need an independent People's Task Force in Chicago: