City officials in Chicago released hundreds of emails Thursday that had been exchanged pertaining to the fatal police shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
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The city has already announced it will add more body cameras to police equipment and that officers involved in fatal shootings will be put on a mandatory 30-day period of desk duty, compared with the current three-day policy.
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Emanuel’s call to expand the number of Tasers comes as some African-American members of the City Council, including 9th Ward Ald. The department also devised a training procedure that focuses on teaching officers how to avoid using force if at all possible and as long as it’s safe.
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Gary Klugiewicz, a retired Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office captain who specializes in de-escalation training, says while there are many “perfect storms” out there, officers can always use more tips on how to quell a situation.
At a press conference, the mayor – appearing with city police superintendent John Escalante – said that “Force can be the last option, not the first choice”, although he said that police are human and do make mistakes.
Meanwhile, more protests were planned in Cleveland on Wednesday, two days after a grand jury decided not to charge two white police officers in the 2014 shooting death of Tamir Rice, a black 12-year-old boy who was playing in a park with a toy gun that shoots plastic pellets.
However, the shootings have continued.
“Retraining 11,000 cops while you’re trying to deal with guns and gangs, it’s challenging, but it can be done”, Wexler said. The city fought for more than a year to keep the video from being released, prompting accusations of a cover-up in City Hall and calls for Emanuel to resign.
Chicago’s interim police superintendent says a review of the department’s crisis intervention training will begin early this week, after officers fatally shot two people while responding to a domestic disturbance.
Police tactics and racism have been the subject of an intense national debate since protests erupted in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014 over the shooting death of another black teen, 18-year-old Michael Brown.
Training issues are expected to be a major focus of the federal probe, which is expected to take a year.
The Cook County, Illinois State’s Attorney has requested assistance from the FBI in investigating the police-involved shooting that left a 55-year-old woman and a 19-year-old man dead last week.
“The people have no trust in the police”. The State’s Attorney’s Office does not control the pace or process of IPRA, but it is absolutely critical in this case, as in all police-involved shootings, for the investigative agency to get it right so that justice can be served. “That might include calling other officers to the scene”. It also led to an ongoing civil rights investigation of the entire Chicago Police Department by the U.S. Department of Justice.
The news conference was Emanuel’s first public appearance since cutting short a family vacation to Cuba.
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About 1,860 officers – or roughly 15 per cent of Chicago’s officers – have completed the training, according to department statistics.
