In the five and a half years since the Chicago Police Department agreed to extensive oversight from a federal judge, there have been bursts of activity to address the brutality and civil rights violations that led to the agreement.

Court hearings: more than a hundred. Meetings: hundreds. Money: hundreds of millions in Chicago taxpayer dollars allocated to making the court-ordered reforms, known as a consent decree, a reality.

Chicago police haven’t crafted a system for officers to work with residents to address threats to public safety.

They haven’t completed a mandatory study of where officers are assigned throughout the city and whether changes would help thwart crime.

And they have failed to move forward with a plan to alert police brass about which officers have been accused of misconduct more than once and might need counseling, retraining or discipline.

  • Verdant Banana@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    what happened is someone ran for president with police reform on the platform but four years later has nothing to show for it

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      16 hours ago

      Sure they do, cops are now reformed back to full force, which was the plan all along

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      15 hours ago

      Sure, but a lot of decisions regarding policing happen at a local and state level. There needs to be electoral consequences at these positions for real reform to happen.