Posted on 07/18/2024 9:50:28 AM PDT by Salman
With the Democratic National Convention about a month away, the chief judge of Chicago’s federal court has called for greater clarity in the Chicago Police Department’s policy dictating when officers may deactivate their body-worn cameras.
But the order issued this month by Chief Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer gives the city and CPD until Aug. 30 — more than a week after the conclusion of the DNC — to provide a new draft of the policy to the Illinois attorney general’s office and the independent monitoring team that assesses consent-decree compliance.
Since the consent decree was entered in early 2019, the independent monitoring team led by former federal prosecutor Maggie Hickey has repeatedly urged CPD to bolster its records collection, retention and analysis practices. Officers activating their body-worn cameras in a timely manner has remained a major challenge for the department, too, which could come into play as the department handles expected protests at the convention.
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“We will not allow people to come here and destroy our city,” Snelling previously told the Tribune. “We’re ready. We’re prepared to deal with whatever comes our way. But we would love for everything to end peacefully. Do we expect that that’s going to happen? No. That’s our wish.”
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“We will not allow people to come here and destroy our city,”
“We’re doing a good job of that ourselves.”
And I can't wait !
No excuse to not run them all the time.
Because the people here already are doing a great job.
Beat me to it
Yup—they just get offended when spoiled rich leftist white people destroy their city.
Why is this complicated? Cop on duty and out of car, camera on.
The beatings will continue until the confessions increase.
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