formally investigate the chicago police department writing a letter to the department of justice, a department that has been dogged by persistent established allegations of misconduct for decades. we ve covered many of those recent allegations as part of the reporting we ve been doing around policing in chicago for the past two years. in the summer of 2014, we confronted mayor emmanuel about a report the police department which had reported a dramatic drop in homicides was manipulating the stats. do you have full faith that these statistics are not being duped? yes, absolutely. the superintendent of the police department leadership very focused on intelligence, data driven focus, through different methods and you can t do what you need to do if the numbers are being messed with. number two, even the inspector general complimented the chicago police department for the integrate of their numbers. doesn t mean you can t focus on if there are challenges all the
killed the murders have not been resolved, have not been solved. so that s why there s such a crisis in confidence. i think we need federal oversight because we need investigation of all who saw the tape and what the actions were with subpoena power. there s a very strong editorial run in the new york times yesterday in which a law professor formerly in columbia and now chicago essentially alleges that the pattern of this was a cover-up and that not only superintendent mccarthy but anita alvarez, the prosecutor who took 400 days to charge and mayor emmanuel himself that they should all lose their jobs and all step down. what do you think of that? well, i think that s why the federal oversight is so important. that all who saw the tape who have decided to suppress the tape for whatever reason they chose to do it must also come
but killed fred hampton and mark clark to john burge and people into false confessions to jason. it s an unbroken line, and the culture of silence, the silence, the culture of don t tell, the culture of suppression, the culture of lying, the culture of policemen afraid of other police does not change sufficiently. there s one kid that got shot. there are other tapes in other cases yet to be resolved, as well. as a matter of fact, we paid the last few years a half billion dollars in police misconduct. while we re threatening to lay off 5,000 teachers, a half billion in misconduct which could sustain the 5,000 teachers. so this is not and further more, while you have this killing,ing there have been 450 killings in chicago this year. 75% of those who have been
and new leadership to confront the challenges the department and our community and our city are facing as we go forward. i ve asked the first deputy to serve as acting commissioner until the police force conducts a thorough search. . that press conference today, chicago mayor rahm emanuel also announced a new task force on police accountability. according to the may s office, they will recommend reforms, all of today s developments come exactly one week after dash cam vid was are leased of the deadly shooting of laquan mcdonald by police officer jason van dyke. officer van dyke is charged with first degree murder. he was released on bond last night. joining us now is leslie hairston, an alderman for the fifth ward of chicago and a former assistant attorney general for illinois. what do you make of the attorney general s request tonight for
killed and reported widely in the media and the autopsy slowing he was shot 16 times. back in february, we filed a freedom of information act request asking the chicago police department for the dashcam footage we had heard existed of the shooting. that request was rejected. an appeal was also rejected. later on an nbc chicago report surfaced over an hour of surveillance video at a burger king near the site of the shooting had been erased, something yet to be fully explained as of this broadcast. we spoke to the manager of the burger king. this summer, we spoke to a former investigator with chicago s independent police review authority, a body which investigates all allegations an of police misconduct. about allegations that he was fired for finding officers at fault in several civilian shootings. so are you saying that this essentially was rigged, that basically, your supervisors at ipra were determined to get a