Just days after striking a contract deal with the city’s largest police union, Mayor Brandon Johnson urged City Council members late Monday to reject an arbitrator’s ruling allowing cops to have the most serious disciplinary cases heard out of public view.
Officers facing dismissal or suspensions of more than a year could take their cases to arbitration under a final opinion issued last week by independent arbitrator Edwin Benn, that would allow members of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police to bypass public proceedings before the Chicago Police Board.
