Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Thursday, June 8, 2017.
ACLU slams Emanuel’s new police reform monitor plan
The American Civil Liberties Union has slammed Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s new plan to have an independent party monitor the Chicago Police Department rather than put it under a consent decree overseen by a federal judge, calling it a “non-starter” and “hostile to police reform,” according to the Sun-Times. The ACLU hasn’t yet decided whether it will sue over the matter, “but we are considering every option,” said ACLU spokesman Ed Yohnka. “The only real path to police reform in Chicago is through a consent decree overseen by a federal judge. . . . That is what the city committed to when the DOJ completed its scathing report in January,” the director of the ACLU’s of Illinois Police Practices Project, Karen Sheley, said in a statement. [Sun-Times]
