Report: Chicago agency had no records on 6 police shootings

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Report: Chicago agency had no records on 6 police shootings

Don Babwin, Associated Press

Updated 7:51 pm, Tuesday, August 2, 2016

CHICAGO (AP) — The beleaguered Chicago agency that investigates police-involved shootings made no mention in quarterly reports in recent years of dozens of incidents in which officers fired their weapons and had no records at all of six shooting incidents, the city's inspector general found in a report released Tuesday.

As the city, the Independent Police Review Board and police department struggle to regain public trust shattered by the video of an officer fatally shooting black teenager Laquan McDonald, the report raises more questions about what the public is being told — and not told — when officers use force.

"During this historic moment of transformation of police oversight in Chicago, the City should recognize that the use-of-force reporting is a crucial tool for meaningful transparence," Inspector General Joe Ferguson's office concluded in the report.

But IPRA suggested the inspector general was unfairly singling it out, saying the agency doesn't have the resources to do much beyond rely on the Chicago Police Department for information about use-of-force incidents.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Inspector-general-says-6-Chicago-police-shootings-9046221.php

[True Dough]

1. Chicago has some of the worst gang violence in America

And it also has some of the worst police oversight. There's definitely a need to improve accountability there.

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2. Then I guess they didnt happen!

[Igel]

3. I wonder if they involved shootings in which people were hit

or those in which people weren't hit.

"Shootings" can be when people or shot or guns are shot.

(But they also reported more incidents in some categories than actually happened. So I guess they really did.)