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Spring of 1973 was a busy season for Renault Robinson, who spoke at a conference on “Community Control of Police” and, not incidentally, walked a beat in the alley behind Chicago’s police headquarters in the South Loop. “This is retaliation,” Robinson told a Tribune reporter about his assignment. “No one had this job before me.” Robinson, who headed the Afro-American Patrolmen’s League, had .
A political action committee backed by Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger has raised $13,500 to defeat a ballot item that would create a new police oversight.
Chicago is on the cusp of a historical election set for Feb. 28, when councilors will be chosen by voters in each city police district to form the Chicago Police District Councils part of the new system of community control over police.