“The conversation should be centered on those people who have not been able to get justice even when we’ve seen some of the things we’ve seen,” Sen. Gary Winfield (D-New Haven) said during the debate.
Under the law starting on January 1 officers and troopers will be required to submit to a behavioral health assessment at least every five years as a condition of continued employment. They will also be required to display their name and badge number on the outside of their uniform.
The 13-member Police Accountability Task Force is also expected to submit a preliminary report to the legislature.
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The mayor again said on Monday that she wants to compromise with Ald. Leslie Hairston (5th) on her phone-calls-for-arrestees ordinance, a suggestion Hairston, backed by legal experts, curtly shot down. We want to work with Ald. Hairston absolutely understand the issue in its entirely and as you may recall as part of the Police Accountability Taskforce report, we embraced a recommendation from a number of different civil rights lawyers which would make sure that information in every interrogation room has information about free lawyers that an arrestee can have access to, give them phones and so forth, Lightfoot said. The proposal that we had, which is to provide three hours, is consistent with national standards, consistent with LA. There are a number of large police departments that have no standard whatsoever. So I m confident that in working with Ald. Hairston we ll be able to reach an appropriate resolution.
Crisis mounts in Chicago as Lightfoot admits lying and an official resigns following brutal police raid
Chicago Corporation Counsel Mark Flessner, the head of the city’s Law Department, tendered his resignation on Sunday as the political fallout mounts following the release of footage of the brutal police raid last year on the home of social worker Anjanette Young. On Monday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot also announced all the officers involved will be placed on desk duty.
Attorney Mark Flessner [Credit: City of Chicago]
The resignation of Flessner and other measures announced by Lightfoot are part of a campaign to deflect attention away from the deeply entrenched lawlessness and violence that has been cultivated in the Chicago Police Department (CPD) through nearly a century of Democratic Party rule. As the incident with Young makes clear, police violence and illegal searches and police raids have continued unabated through the current Lightfoot administration, even though she herself
WEST LINN, OR (KPTV) - The city of West Linn released the full 40-page independent investigation report into the police department and the cityâs response to a racially motivated wrongful arrest case.
OIR Group, an independent police oversight and review firm, conducted the investigation, centered around Michael Fesserâs tort claim and subsequent $600,000 settlement.
In February 2017, Fesser, a Black man, was pulled over by West Linn officers in Portland. Court records show that Fesser had previously brought up concerns of racial harassment to his boss at A&B Towing, and that boss called in a favor to a friend, then-West Linn Police Chief Terry Timeus.