Chicago Police Accountability Task Force

The members of the task force included:{{cite web|url=http://wgntv.com/2015/12/01/meet-the-members-of-emanuels-new-police-accountability-task-force/|title=Meet the members of Emanuel's new police accountability task force|work=WGN-TV|date=December 2015|accessdate=2016-06-06}}{{cite web|url=https://chicagopatf.org/about/task-force-members/|title=Chicago City Police Task Force Members|website=Chicagopatf.org|accessdate=6 June 2016}}

• Lori Lightfoot – president of the Chicago Police Board and Task Force chair{{cite web |url=https://chicagopatf.org/about/task-force-members/ |website=chicagopatf.org |accessdate=18 February 2019|title=Police Accountability Task Force Members }}
• Deval Patrick - senior advisor
• Sergio Acosta – partner at Hinshaw & Culbertson and a former federal prosecutor
• Joseph M. Ferguson – inspector general of the City of Chicago
• Hiram Grau – former director of the Illinois State Police and former deputy superintendent of the Chicago Police Department
• Randolph N. Stone – University of Chicago Law School professor, director of the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Project Clinic and former Cook County public defender

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The task force held four public community forums in February 2016 and one press event in April 2016 and published the meetings on YouTube.{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMpvq84OtTgDaQPsp-2UBPw|title=Chicago Police Accountability Task Force|publisher=YouTube|accessdate=2016-06-06}}{{cite web|url=https://chicagopatf.org/events/|title=Events: Task Force Community Forums |website=Chicagopatf.org|accessdate=6 June 2016}}

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The final report used Chicago police data to show that African-Americans were regularly and disproportionately abused and denied rights, which had been reported by many African-American residents of Chicago over many years.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/us/chicago-police-dept-plagued-by-systemic-racism-task-force-finds.html|title=Chicago Police Dept. Plagued by Systemic Racism, Task Force Finds|date=April 14, 2016|work=The New York Times}}{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/inside-the-chicago-police-departments-race-problem/|title=Inside the Chicago Police Department's race problem|work=PBS NewsHour|date=14 April 2016|access-date=June 6, 2016}}{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2016/04/chicago-police-reforms|title=Chicago police reforms|date=April 23, 2016|newspaper=The Economist|access-date=June 6, 2016}} Chicago's population is approximately one-third black, Hispanic and white and according to the report, 404 people were shot by the Chicago police between 2008 and 2015 and 74 percent of those were African-American. According to the New York Times, the final report "was blistering, blunt and backed up by devastating statistics."

As a result of the report, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that he would be implementing roughly one-third of the 76 recommendations in the report.{{cite web|url=http://abc7chicago.com/news/chicago-police-department-will-implement-task-force-reforms/1302088/|title=Chicago Police Department will implement task force reforms|work=ABC7 Chicago|date=21 April 2016|access-date=June 6, 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://time.com/4303519/chicago-police-reforms-task-force/|title=Chicago Police Reforms: Mayor Makes Some Changes but Not All|author=Josh Sanburn|work=Time|access-date=June 6, 2016}}

Dean Angelo, the president of Chicago's Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7,{{cite web|url=http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2016/04/25/fop-president-dean-angelo-responds-task-force-recommendations|title=FOP President Dean Angelo Responds to Task Force Recommendations|work=Chicago Tonight - WTTW|access-date=June 6, 2016}} declared the accusation of racism in the Chicago Police Department "biased".{{cite web|url=http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/police-union-low-morale-will-crater-following-biased-report/|title=Police union: Low morale will crater following 'biased' report|work=Chicago Sun-Times|access-date=June 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611185259/http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/police-union-low-morale-will-crater-following-biased-report/|archive-date=June 11, 2016|url-status=dead}} Lori Lightfoot, who was on the task force, responded to Angelo:{{cite web|url=http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2016/04/26/lori-lightfoot-dean-angelo-misses-mark-task-force-recommendations|title=Lori Lightfoot: Dean Angelo 'Misses the Mark' on Task Force Recommendations|work=Chicago Tonight - WTTW|access-date=June 6, 2016}} "It is hard to fathom that Mr. Angelo maintains his reflexive, uninformed position when it is obviously belied by the facts. Does he really believe that a better trained, better prepared and more professional police force will not inure to the benefit of his members?"{{cite web|url=http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/sites/default/files/article/file-attachments/Chicago%20Tonight%20Letter.pdf|title=Fraternal Order Letter|website=ChicagoTonight.WTTW.com|access-date=June 6, 2016}}

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