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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Fran Spielman

Civilian police oversight off to slow start

Protesters and Chicago police officers during a march downtown in May 2020 over the death of George Floyd. A Minneapolis police officer later was convicted of murdering Floyd. (Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times file photo)

Chicago’s fledgling civilian police oversight commission has so far filled only one of 14 staff positions — a painfully slow start to reform vital to restoring the trust between residents and police that can be pivotal to solving violent crimes, alderpersons were told Tuesday.

Testifying at City Council budget hearings, Adam Gross, executive director of the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability, called the commission a “start-up.”

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