proif provides an opportunity for some hope. not a panacea but hope if we can work together toward reform. something i haven t seen in my lifetime in chicago. wesley, you have been reporting on police issues for well over the last two years. my question is what s the significance of a d.o.j. patterns and practices probe? what does it mean for chicago? well, it s it s much broader than a civil rights probe. when d.o.j. comes in and says, we re going to investigate the laquan mcdonald shooting or when they went into ferguson to investigate the michael brown shooting, right, that s a specific probe that looks at the circumstances of one shooting, one interaction and it s a very high bar, a high standard to prove that the officer in ferguson may have committed a civil rights violation. and we didn t see that. in a broad patterns and practices probe, the department of justice is looking at all of the policies, all of the implementation by the department to see if there is any constitu
civil rights violation. and we didn t see that. in a broad patterns and practices probe, the department of justice is looking at all of the policies, all of the implementation by the department to see if there is any constitutional violation. so they re looking at traffic stops, neighborhoods where police presence exist. they re looking at how people are booked. if they re pulling two suspects over for the same crime, how often are they arresting these people based on race, based on age. they re looking for any type of systemic discrimination. what we ve seen often is they often find this type of discrimination and it leads to broad, swooping reforms in these departments. craig, there are two issues here, right? there is the issue about the system in chicago, police oversight, whether ipra is the kind of policing the police actually works. you know, we have covered on this show pretty credible allegations by former investigators who said, you know, that they were pushed to not find d
in a broad patterns and practices probe, the department of justice is doing is looking at all of the policies, all of the implementation by the department to see if there is any constitutional violation. so they re looking at traffic stops, they re looking at neighborhoods where police presence exist. they re looking at how people are booked. if they re pulling two suspects over for the same crime, how often are they arresting these people based on race, based on age. they re looking for any type of systemic discrimination. what we ve seen very often is they often find this type of discrimination and it leads to broad, swooping reforms in these departments. craig, there are two issues here, right? there is the issue about the system in chicago, police oversight, whether ipra is the kind of policing the police actually works. you know, we have covered on this show pretty credible allegations by former investigators who said, you know, that they were pushed to not find disciplinary cau