RAHM EMANUEL had perhaps the toughest week of his political career last week. This week will hardly be any better, judging from its start. On the morning of December 7th, Loretta Lynch, the attorney general, announced that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened an investigation into whether the Chicago Police Department (CPD) has engaged in “a pattern or practice of violations of the Constitution or federal law”. The DOJ will pay particular attention to the CPD’s use of deadly force, racial, ethnic and other disparities in its use of force and its accountability mechanisms, said Ms Lynch.
Also today the CPD’s head of detectives, Constantine Andrews, resigned. His resignation came on the heels of the sacking on December 6th by Mr Emanuel of Scott Ando, the head of the Independent Police Review Authority, a watchdog that has lost credibility thanks to its apparent tendency to proclaim the fatal shooting of suspects by police officers justified under nearly all circumstances. Mr Ando’s departure followed Mr Emanuel’s dismissal on December 1st of Garry McCarthy, the chief of police he appointed in 2011.
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