The Chicago Police Board is an independent civilian body that oversees certain activities of the Chicago Police Department. The Board’s powers and responsibilities include deciding disciplinary matters involving police officers and nominating candidates for Superintendent of Police to the Mayor.
— Read on www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/cpb.html
Category: Misconduct
Civilian Office of Police Accountability | Chicago PD
Civilian Office of Police Accountability
— Read on www.chicagocopa.org/
California’s Criminal Cops: Dozens of convicted police officers stay on the job
California’s weak laws on police misconduct do almost nothing to stop convicted cops from carrying a badge.
— Read on www.mercurynews.com/2019/11/10/californias-criminal-cops-convicted-but-stay-on-the-job/
Read the Full IG Report on the Laquan McDonald Shooting | NBC Chicago
The city of Chicago on Wednesday released more than 6,500 pages of a long-secret Inspector General’s report on the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald, making public for the first time hundreds of pages detailing…
— Read on www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Read-the-Full-IG-Report-on-the-Laquan-McDonald-Shooting-562640671.html
Civilian Office of Police Accountability
This is the home page for the Chicago PD Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA). The website has data and reports on CPD.
— Read on www.chicagocopa.org/
Study finds misconduct spreads among police officers like contagion | NOVA | PBS | NOVA | PBS
According to new research, reassigning police officers with a history of misconduct makes it more likely that their new peers will also misbehave.
— Read on www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/police-misconduct-peer-effects/
Biased and Abusive: The harmful effects of everyday NYPD practices | by PROP
This report serves as another reminder that every day that NYC’s political leaders sidestep this issue, our so-called criminal justice system continues its abusive and discriminatory practices. It is a painful irony that the people targeted by “broken windows” policing make up the very constituency representing the political base of the city’s leaders proud to call themselves progressives……
www.policereformorganizingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/PROP-Summer-Fall-2018-Report.pdf
