Some of Chicago's police force have proved trigger-happy and quick to cover up colleagues' wrongdoing
gonna change,” says a police sergeant, hands on hips, huddled with colleagues in a station in a scruffy, violent district on Chicago’s West Side. He sounds relaxed as the city begins its term under a “consent decree”, a court-ordered process that imposes federal monitors to oversee police reforms. “If you’re a good officer, it won’t change anything,” agrees another man in uniform.
Though he talks of other recent improvements, such as officers’ use of body cameras, he admits that difficulties linger. These include ongoing use of “racist techniques” and the fact “we treat part of the city inappropriately”. He means his police are most likely to abuse Latino or black residents. This, Mr Johnson reckons, is the fault of a few rotten apples. “We need to identify the bad actors and get them out.
Consent decrees were made possible by legislation from 1994 The Justice Department each year has typically picked two or three targets for reform from 18,000 police departments. It usually responds to a prominent case of police malpractice. According to a Justice Department review of two decades’ use of decrees, there have been 69 formal investigations and 40 decrees covering police departments.
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