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Here's a look at what elected officials and other media outlets have said about the issue recently.

Mary Richardson-Lowry, a teacher’s daughter, served as Chicago building commissioner, then school board president under former Mayor Richard M. Daley. Now, she is Mayor Brandon Johnson’s choice for one of the most trusted and sensitive positions in city government.

Benchmark Analytics claims to have developed software that can foresee adverse interactions between officers and civilians.

Minneapolis wants to spend $1.25 million on new technology to help identify warning signs of bad policing. But the city has tried this before and failed.

Cities Barack Obama has exploited his youthful stint as a Chicago community organizer at every stage of his political career. As someone who had worked for grassroots “change,” he said, he was a different kind of politician, one who could translate people’s hopes into reality. The media lapped up this conceit, presenting Obama’s organizing experience as a meaningful qualification for the Oval Office. This past September, a cell-phone video of Chicago students beating a fellow teen to death coursed over the airwaves and across the Internet. None of the news outlets that had admiringly ...