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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Fran Spielman

Taxpayers shell out $250M in police-related settlements; new report slams city efforts to learn from those mistakes

A new report by the city’s public safety watchdog is critical of the risk management efforts by the Lightfoot administration. (Sun-Times file photo)

Mayor Lori Lightfoot campaigned on a promise to implement a risk management system to rein in runaway settlements costing Chicago taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. She lured one of the nation’s top risk managers away from Atlanta to spearhead that effort.

Nearly four years later, those grand plans and lofty promises have fallen rather flat, according to an analysis released Thursday by Inspector General Deborah Witzburg.

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