In its current efforts to reform long-running patterns of civil rights abuses, the Chicago Police Department appears to be inching up from failure to “needs improvement.”
That’s the bottom line in the latest accounting by court-appointed independent monitor Margaret “Maggie” Hickey of the city’s court-ordered efforts to reform long-standing and pervasive patterns and practices of civil rights abuses.
“Constitutional and effective policing and the Consent Decree require more than a simple checklist,” she wrote in a letter accompanying her office’s latest biannual report last Tuesday.
