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Our investigation found that this pattern of practice is in no small part the result of severely deficient training procedures and accountability systems. >> this investigation followed the release of dash cam video from a 2014 fatal police shooting of laquan mcdonald. remember the 17-year-old teenager was shot, african-american teenager shot 16 times by a white officer. so, the city has agreed to work with the department of justice in the community on drafting a consent decree. what will that look like? let's go to cnn's ryan young in chicago with more on that. how do they fix this? >> brooke...

Heightens the importance and urgency of our findings. the failures that we identify and that we heard about from residents and officers alike have deeply eroded community trust, particularly in african-american and latino communities suffering the most from gun violence on chicago's south and west sides. these neighborhoods are the hardest hit by cpd's pattern of unlawful force and breakdowns in the city's accountability systems. these breakdowns breed distrust and undermine policing in the very communities that need proactive policing the most. a reluctance to share information makes it harde...

Officials sassisted in this investigation. we found the department engages in pattern of using -- this includes shooting at people and tasing people. it erode police commute trust, trust that is the cornerstone of public safety. we found it's largely attributable to systemic deficiencies within the cpd and the city. we found cpd does not adequately train its officers to use the appropriate amount of force opinion we observed training on deadly force that used a video made decades ago with guidance inconsistent with both current law and internal policy. we found cpd officers do not fully report...

Not appropriately reviewing these uses of force. we found that chicago's accountability systems are broken. many complaints that should be investigated are not. and when investigations do occur, they are glacially slow and sacked by overwork and under trained investigators, also failed to obtain basic witness statements and evidence. officers are too rarely held accountable for misconduct, and when they are discipline is unpredictable and ineffective. we found that cpd's approach to data collection on the use of force prevents cpd from spotting dangerous trends, responding with remedial traini...

No small part the result of severely deficient training procedures and accountability systems. now as my colleagues will explain in greater detail, cpd did not give its officers the training they need to do their jobs safely, effectively, and lawfully. it fails to properly collect and analyze data. including data on misconduct complaints and training deficiencies. and it does not adequately review use of force incidents to determine whether force was appropriate or lawful. or whether the use of force could have been avoided altogether. all of these issues are compounded by poor supervision and...