Lori Lypson is chief operating officer of Chicago’s Public Building Commission. Her only experience investigating police wrongdoing was nearly 20 years ago, in CPD’s Office of Professional Standards run by Lori Lightfoot at the time.
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Police reform advocates are mobilizing behind the scenes to stop Mayor Lori Lightfoot from appointing the chief operating officer of the Public Building Commission to run Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability.
Lori Lypson’s only experience in investigating police wrongdoing was more than 20 years ago when she spent a year as supervising investigator for the Chicago Police Department’s Office of Professional Standards.
The chief administrator of OPS at that time? Lori Lightfoot.
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot recently criticized Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability, saying she was “extraordinarily unhappy” with the slow pace of their work.
If the mayor wants to point out those not moving quickly enough to bring real change to policing in the city, she needs to look in the mirror. True self-reflection would reveal that she has become an obstacle to police reform not the change agent she promised.
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As a candidate, Lightfoot spoke of transforming the Chicago Police Department. Responding to an ACLU questionnaire about police reform, she promised to take transparent accountability measures “over and above the monitoring” required by a federal consent decree designed to address patterns of police violence against people of color and people with disabilities.
The debate over the use of lethal force against fleeing suspects continues
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CHICAGO, IL â The fatal shooting of a 42-year-old Black man driving away from police in North Carolina has sparked renewed debate over whatâs known as the âfleeing felon doctrine.â
Two weeks ago, Andrew Brown Jr., who started driving away from sheriffâs deputies in North Charleston was shot dead.
Police say they were trying to execute an arrest warrant on felony drug charges when he allegedly fled.
âThere are so many circumstances where officers fire at or into a moving vehicle and it s just not a good idea,â said Sharon Fairley, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School.