After 4 years leading COPA, departing chief reflects on time at police oversight agency

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After 4 years leading COPA, departing chief reflects on time at police oversight agency

Four years ago, 20 members of the Chicago City Council signed a letter to then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot, “vehemently” opposing her nominee to lead the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, Andrea Kersten, who was the agency’s deputy chief administrator at the time. COPA, bound by the city’s municipal code, had recently released its report on the Chicago Police Department’s botched raid at the home of Anjanette Young in 2019. In that report, auth…