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Good morning, Chicago. With a new mayoral administration, no permanent police superintendent and a new federal judge overseeing the case, the Chicago Police Department’s consent decree is in grave danger of failing, according to the city’s former chief watchdog. “For meaningful reform to reach critical mass, the City must be prodded — repeatedly and publicly,” Joe Ferguson, the city’s former ...

With a new mayoral administration, no permanent police superintendent and a new federal judge overseeing the case, the Chicago Police Department’s consent decree is in grave danger of failing, according to the city’s former chief watchdog. “Consent Decree implementation and monitoring is a faltering undertaking both in substantive accomplishment and in transparency. In the absence of a hard ...