In Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants Chicago police to carry tasers and become trained to defuse non-lethal situations with non-lethal weapons and force. The city aims to inject “some humanity into the work of our police department and police officers”, he said.
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The release of the video set off weeks of demonstrations and forced the resignation of Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy.
Emanuel says the changes are aimed at “injecting some humanity” in how police operate. Police were called by Legrier’s father after he had been acting erratically and wielding a bat.
“When an officer, or an individual is not following the standards, they are undermining the other officers”, Emanuel said.
Escalante, a Chicago Police Department veteran, says he has imposed a number of reforms, even as the U.S. Department of Justice and a separate mayoral task force look at systemic problems in CPD.
Neslund’s letter accuses detectives of repeatedly attempting to get the witness to change her statement because, they said, her story “did not match the video”.
Under intense pressure to change the behavior of the police force, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced a series of steps Wednesday meant to rein in the use of deadly force, promising to buy hundreds of Tasers and to train officers to be less confrontational. Among those changes are the presence of a stun gun in every police vehicle, and proper training for all officers, who will be mandated to use the stun gun before turning to their firearms.
Patrol officers will also be asked to summon additional personnel during confrontations.
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. John Escalante and the head of Chicago’s Independent Police Review Authority, Sharon Fairley, to review the department’s crisis intervention and de-escalation policies.
People place candles in a makeshift memorial at a vigil in honor of Bettie Jones, a mother of five, and college student Quintonio LeGrier, at Gwendolyn Brooks Academy in Chicago, Illinois, Dec. 29, 2015. The black youth, 17, armed with a knife, is seen veering away from Van Dyke in the video before the veteran officer starts firing.
About 1,860 officers, or roughly 15 percent of Chicago’s officers, have completed the training, according to department statistics.
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A December 5, 2014, email from former IPRA chief Scott Ando to Janey Rountree, a top aide to the mayor on public safety issues, included a “list of cases pending review by either the SAO or the USAO” and noted cases where officers had been charged.
