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Padded clearance stats and stalled court cases do little to boost either public confidence or police morale, as one expert says.

The drop in shootings has been greatest in 15 of the city’s most violent community areas. Those neighborhoods still accounted for 64% of the city’s homicides and 60% of the people shot.

The overriding question was whether Lightfoot was willing to appoint Deborah Witzburg even though she was chosen by former Inspector General Joe Ferguson, with whom the mayor clashed repeatedly and ultimately forced out.

“This is not the place where Adam deserved to die, in an alley alone at night at 13 years old,” the teen’s sister said tearfully during a vigil Tuesday.

We don’t need the investment in a trained police force as it presently operates. And we definitely don’t need CPD’s latest lip service to reform.

CHICAGO — A federal judge on Friday granted the Chicago Police Department a three-year extension to comply with the consent decree, giving the department a total of eight years to implement a series of much-anticipated court-ordered reforms.

The mayor estimates the cost of completing those massive reforms will be between $50 million and $100 million.

Hector Hernandez was shot 13 times by former CPD officers Patrick Kelly and Antonio Corral in April 2014.

CHICAGO -- The voices raised in unison in the community room of the 12th District Chicago Police Department station on a recent Thursday evening belonged to less than a dozen youth singing gospel and R&B songs. It was a scene that may have looked better suited for a church or…