Trump DOJ Will Move To Block Chicago Police Reform, Jeff Sessions Says
The Trump administration will attempt to block an agreement between the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois to reform the long-troubled Chicago Police Department, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday. The Justice Department has backed away from police reform in various contexts, but this will be the first time it’s actively attempted to intervene to prevent reform from moving forward.
After the Trump administration made clear it wasn’t interested in negotiating any agreements to reform police departments, Illinois’ attorney general got involved. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced an agreement last month. In a statement Tuesday, Sessions again made the dubious claim that a prior agreement between Chicago and the American Civil Liberties Union was responsible for a spike in homicides in the city.
Sessions said shortly after he became attorney general that he hadn’t read the Justice Department’s investigation into policing in Chicago.
Last week, a jury convicted Chicago officer Jason Van Dyke for the 2014 murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. Days later, President Donald Trump urged the city of Chicago to embrace “stop-and-frisk” policing, inaccurately calling it an effective approach.
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work out an agreement!?!?
