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The vote represented a significant rebuke of Mayor Brandon Johnson and the central promise of his campaign, which vowed to address the root causes of crime and violence rather than focusing on law enforcement.
Five years after pledging to firm up recordkeeping on incidents where police officers point their weapons at people while performing their duties, the Chicago Police Department is still chasing goals outlined in a federal consent decree guiding reform.
The police department pledged to honor a federal consent decree that required officers to report whenever they pointed a weapon at someone. Only 12 incidents have been reported, despite nearly 17,000 occurrences.
Kim Foxx is proposing to decline prosecution of gun crimes if illegal guns are discovered pursuant to most traffic stops. That's a terrible idea and an overstepping of her office's bounds.
An Appeals Court has overturned Deshaun Carpenter's gun conviction, questioning the legality of the Chicago police's traffic stop-and-search strategy.