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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Alexandra Block

Police reform is failing in Chicago. Mayor Lightfoot must fix that.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot sits beside Police Supt. David Brown at the Chicago Police Department’s graduation and promotion ceremony at Navy Pier, Aug. 9. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

After the Chicago police official leading the Office of Constitutional Policing was fired last week, Mayor Lori Lightfoot incorrectly dismissed the entire affair as “palace intrigue.”

Confronted by questions about whether the firing would slow the pace of police reform, the mayor assured the press and public that the city would continue to meet all of its obligations under the 2019 federal consent decree reached after the murder of Laquan MacDonald. 

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