The Latest Breaking News from Yolanda Talley

A new civilian oversight panel is working with Chicago police on a policy that would bar officers from joining hate and extremist groups.

“Any individual who is tasked with protecting the public cannot be trusted to do so equitably when they associate with an openly racist, bigoted, and misogynistic organization,” wrote Jeff Tischauser of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

“My auntie’s a police officer,” the niece of Internal Affairs Chief Yolanda Talley says in footage of the Feb. 1 incident. “This is her car.”

These are known facts: The chief of the Internal Affairs division’s car was not impounded, her niece was not arrested, and the officers involved were removed from their street duties.

When Mayor Lori Lightfoot addressed this issue on Wednesday, we wish she had forthrightly explained why the police department chose not to impound a top cop’s car that was involved in a drug arrest.

"Of course I wasn’t on the scene making any of these decisions," Supt. David Brown said at a news conference.

Officers pulled over a Lexus belonging to internal affairs chief Yolanda Talley on Feb. 1. Talley’s niece was driving, and a man in the passenger seat was charged with possession of 42 grams of heroin, but the car wasn’t impounded.

Internal affairs chief Yolanda Talley’s niece was driving a Lexus that was pulled over in a drug arrest that netted 42 grams of heroin worth $6,300, according to a police source and court records. The matter has been referred to the city’s inspector general.