Craig Futterman on the Federal Government's Opposition to a Chicago Police Department Consent Decree

AG Madigan Rebukes Jeff Sessions Over Plan To Block CPD Consent Decree

Craig Futterman: The Chicago Police Department is not going to change on its own.

This is following what may have been the largest civil rights investigation of a police department in the history of the Department of Justice that made detailed findings of an ongoing pattern and practice of civil rights violations in Chicago that have disproportionately impacted black folks here.

And then when the Trump administration took office, they said never mind, forget what you just saw… we're gonna abdicate our responsibility to enforce this. And now they're going 180 degrees or are coming full circle.... in essence saying that we're gonna go to court and demand that the CPD be allowed to continue to violate the rights of black folks.

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