Chicago s new civilian oversight panel further hinders cops amid shooting surge, critics say
By Danielle Wallace
City Council approves civilian police oversight committee
Without one vote to spare, the City Council on Wednesday approved creation of a new Chicago police oversight commission that will eventually include 66 newly-elected members.
CHICAGO - Critics argue a new plan pushed through by Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the City Council on Wednesday after 11th-hour negotiations to establish a new civilian oversight panel aimed to increase accountability of law enforcement misconduct will only make it harder for Chicago police to do their jobs.
The embattled president of Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police, John Catanzara, told the Chicago Tribune that the controversial civilian oversight panel approved by the City Council along a 36-13 vote Wednesday is absolutely absurd and dangerous and reckless, arguing it hands too much power to the squeaky wheels who made this
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The Chicago police officer who shot and killed Anthony Alvarez during a foot chase earlier this year in Portage Park has been stripped of his police powers an action that had been recommended by a civilian oversight board back in April.
Officer Evan Solano was relieved of his duties for the duration of an ongoing investigation into the shooting by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability. COPA had recommended that the department take such action but Mayor Lori Lightfoot initially balked at the idea.
Police Superintendent David Brown declined to comment on Solano at an unrelated news conference on Monday.