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Thursday’s vote — after an emotional debate that forced Mayor Brandon Johnson call for decorum four times — reaffirms the Council’s symbolic commitment to police reform and accountability, but the victory for Mayor Brandon Johnson and his allies may be both short lived and pyrrhic.
Mayor Brandon Johnson is urging City Council members Thursday to reject an arbitrator's decision allowing a closed hearing in favor of one that allows for "public transparency and accountability."
Chicago police union President John Catanzara said Mayor Brandon Johnson’s City Council allies put off the vote so Judge Michael Mullen can “do their dirty work for them” by enforcing the arbitration option.
Facing threats of a legal battle from the city’s rank-and-file police union, aldermen again deferred a decision Wednesday over the future of serious discipline for officers accused of wrongdoing. A parliamentary maneuver to “defer and publish” a vote on the matter was made by allies of Mayor Brandon Johnson, marking the latest chapter in a contentious dispute over arbitrator Edwin Benn’s ...
For the second time in two months, the Committee on Workforce Development voted to reject an arbitrator’s ruling that would allow CPD officers accused of serious wrongdoing to bypass the Police Board in favor of arbitration, which would be held behind closed doors.