How Accountable Is The Mayor For Police Misconduct?

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

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4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

For the last couple of months, we’ve been bringing you stories from our archive as we experiment with some new formats. Now, we wanted to share one of the stories we’ve been working on. As protests continue over police brutality and systemic racism in the justice system, WBEZ Criminal Justice Reporter Patrick Smith breaks down how the police accountability system works in Chicago, how these decisions are made— and what power the mayor holds in cases of police misconduct.

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0:26.2	Hey, it's Alexandra Solomon, Curious City editor. As we've mentioned over the last two months, we've been digging into our archives while we work on some new stuff and experiment with new ways of telling stories.
0:38.9	We're trying to make the show even better.
0:41.4	And there's a story we've been working on in one of these new formats that we think is really
0:45.7	timely, especially with the ongoing protests over police misconduct and systemic racism.
0:52.2	So we thought we'd share that story with you a little sooner.
0:55.2	Here it is.
1:01.4	Hey, I'm Jesse Dukes, and I'm here with Patrick Smith, a criminal justice reporter at WBEZ.
1:07.9	Hey, Patrick.
1:08.4	Hey, Jesse.
1:09.1	And today, we are going to talk about police accountability,
1:12.7	which is a subject you have reported on quite a bit over the years. And you wanted to start
1:17.6	the episode with something that happened earlier this summer. Yeah, I wanted to talk about
1:22.7	something that happened in late May. This was the first big weekend of protests and looting after the killing
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