As bullets fly, Chicago police boss blasts civilian oversight plans

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Bradford Betz | Fox News




Chicago's police superintendent on Saturday blasted efforts for greater civilian oversight of the department, citing "real progress" in fighting crime -- just hours after at least eight people were reportedly wounded in overnight shootings.

Hours later, two men were slain on the city's South Side, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Proposals by the city's leading community organizations call for greater oversight by a seven-member civilian board called the Commission for Public Safety and Accountability, the Chicago Tribune reported.

But Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said no one consulted him or anyone in the CPD for the year and a half it was conceptualized.

“We're in the middle of a serious crime fight, and we're finally making real progress, so I don’t know how you can turn over crime strategy and every policing decision to some group of people who have absolutely no law enforcement experience,” Johnson said.


Laquan McDonald, a black teen, was shot by Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke on October 20, 2014.
In November 2015, a judge ordered Mayor Rahm Emanuel to release the video footage.

In January, Fox News reported that murders had declined in the city in 2017 compared with 2016, dropping to 650 kilings from a two-per-day total of 771. Police credited so-called ShotSpotter technology -- consisting of cameras and detection radars deployed in neighborhoods -- for helping to reduce crime.

This year, shooting deaths have included the Feb. 13 slaying of Chicago police Commander Paul Bauer, who was shot multiple times while pursuing a suspect.

However, expanded use of camera surveillance has raised privacy concerns, Fox News reported.

Still, police reform has been a contentious subject in Chicago since November 2015, when a judge ordered the release of video footage showing Laquan McDonald, a black teen, being shot 16 times.

The proposals for the new oversight commission lay out new regulations for selecting community members to new city councils in Chicago’s 22 police districts responsible for improving police-community relations.

Under the new reforms, the commission would name a superintendent by selecting three candidates for the mayor to consider. The mayor would share joint-authority to fire or remove the superintendent “for cause.”

The reforms were modeled off others major cities like Los Angeles and Seattle, which have civilian oversight boards to monitor police.

The new proposals will be introduced at a City Council meeting later this month.

[RBP]

Until the neighborhoods want to be part of the solution, it won't change.

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“We're in the middle of a serious crime fight, and we're finally making real progress, so I don’t know how you can turn over crime strategy and every policing decision to some group of people who have absolutely no law enforcement experience,” Johnson said.

Well, you idiots turned over the governing of a city to a group of people without any clue on how to govern, so...

[Hal-9000]

"citing "real progress" in fighting crime"

Can't help but envision the chief giving this speech while ducking and bullets are flying all around..


sorry

[Teh One Who Knocks]

CBS Chicago


CHICAGO (CBS) — Shootings killed at least four people and wounded at least 14 others across Chicago this weekend, authorities said.

The latest fatal shooting happened around 5:50 p.m. Saturday in the Little Village neighborhood. Police said two men were found shot to death in an auto shop in the 3300 block of South Lawndale Avenue.

A 33-year-old man and a 56-year-old man were pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Both had been shot in the head. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s office identified the older man as Gilberto Casteneda. The younger man’s name has not been released.

About two hours earlier, 51-year-old Elliott Marshall was shot and killed while driving in the Longwood Manor neighborhood. Police said the man was driving south on Vincennes Avenue near 95th Street, when another vehicle pulled up, and someone inside shot him in the chest.

Around the same time, a 27-year-old man was shot in the neck and chest while sitting in a car in the 900 block of North Richmond Street in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. The victim, identified as Jason Rodriguez, was taken to Mount Sinai Medical Center, where he died Sunday afternoon, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.

Among those wounded in other shootings this weekend, a 9-year-old girl was shot by her 3-year-old cousin when the boy found a gun Saturday morning in a home in the 3200 block of West Fulton Boulevard. The girl suffered a single gunshot wound to her right arm, and was in good condition at Stroger Hospital.

At least 13 other people were wounded in shootings between Friday afternoon and Monday morning.