Posted October 15, 2018 7:00 am by Comments

By Christen Smith

Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, center, alongside Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan at a news conference Sept. 13, 2018, announcing they had finalized a consent decree intended to bring sweeping change to the Chicago Police Department. (Photo: Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)
The Department of Justice blasted Chicago officials Friday in a last-minute brief filed against the city’s pending court order implementing third-party police oversight after decades of alleged racial bias.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Friday the “constitutional duty” of public safety “rests primarily” with local law enforcement — whom he describes as a collection of “our finest citizens” whose authority shouldn’t be usurped on account of a few bad actors.
“There is one government institution, and one alone, that has the ability to make Chicago safer — that is the Chicago Police Department,” Sessions said. “Our goal should be to empower it to fulfill its duties, not to restrict its proper functioning or excessively demean the entire Department for the errors of a few. Make no mistake: unjustified restrictions on proper policing and disrespect for our officers directly led to this tragic murder surge in Chicago.”
The written comment period on the city’s proposed consent decree expired Friday, with police unions

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