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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Fran Spielman

Divide between police and community not as wide as some think, civilian oversight panel’s president says

Protesters face Chicago police officers during a march in downtown Chicago in May 2020 after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer. (Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times file photo)

Chicago police officers and the residents they serve are “way, way more aligned” than people think, the civilian oversight commission president said Wednesday, appealing to both sides to listen to each other.

Anthony Driver, president of the Community Commission on Public Safety and Accountability, said discovering those commonalities between the police and the public has been the “defining moment” of his 14-month tenure.

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