Since the november release of a videotape of the 2014 lequan mcdonald shooting. chicago police officer jason van dyke pleaded not guilty tuesday to murder and misconduct charges in the shooting of the teenager. nicole gonzalez van cleave, assistant professor of criminal justice at temple university joining me now from will philadelphia. she s also author of crook county racism and injustice in america s criminal courts. nicole, appreciate you being here. you ve spent years studying the criminal justice system in cook county, chicago. is anything we seeing from the rash of violence to the incidence we re seeing with police surprise you based on what you ve found in your studies in. you know, i ve been studying cook county, chicago, since 1997. we think of the violence erupting over the holiday weekend. we have to think about the fact that the violence is thriving in areas that are both socially and
joining us now is nicole gonzales van cleef. she s assistant professor at the department of justice at temple university and she s done research on the chicago cook county court system and author of an upcoming book called crook county, racism and injustice in america s criminal courts. professor, thanks for being here. thank you for having me. obviously it s always a matter of political accountability when somebody who holds a top job gets fired. do you think that getting rid of this superintendent will have an effect on how things work in the police department and in law enforcement in cook county? you know, when you fire the leadership, it makes all you have us feel better in terms of accountability. we don t want to see many of these leaders anita alvarez, perhaps rahm emanuel and
Department has looked at policing in ferguson and baltimore and cleveland and other cities. the illinois ag is asking the u.s. attorney general, loretta lynch, for a full investigation into the patterns and practices of the chicago pd. citing police killings and allegations going back more than 15 years. joining us now is nicole gonzales van cleef. she s assistant professor at the department of justice at temple university and she s done research on the chicago cook county court system and author of an upcoming book called crook county, racism and injustice in america s criminal courts. professor, thanks for being here. thank you for having me. obviously it s always a matter of political accountability when somebody who holds a top job gets fired. do you think that getting rid of this superintendent will have an effect on how things work in the police department and in law enforcement in cook county? you know, when you fire the leadership, it makes all you have us feel better
Gonzales van cleef. she s assistant professor at the department of justice at temple university and she s done research on the chicago cook county court system and author of an upcoming book called crook county, racism and injustice in america s criminal courts. professor, thanks for being here. thank you for having me. obviously it s always a matter of political accountability when somebody who holds a top job gets fired. do you think that getting rid of this superintendent will have an effect on how things work in the police department and in law enforcement in cook county? you know, when you fire the leadership, it makes all you have us feel better in terms of accountability. we don t want to see many of these leaders anita alvarez, perhaps rahm emanuel and definitely the chief of police saying? office after we see such a terrible abuse of power and potential cover-up. as a sociologist, we know cultural change doesn t come from some ways getting rid of the leadership. there