Six Years, 23 Percent: Chicago’s Failed Promise of Police Reform - The Chicago Reporter

Six Years, 23 Percent: Chicago’s Failed Promise of Police Reform - The Chicago Reporter

When video of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald finally surfaced in November 2015, after a year of official suppression, it ignited citywide protests and a national reckoning. The footage was damning not just for what it showed, but for what it represented: a pattern of unconstitutional policing that the U.S. […] The post Six Years, 23 Percent: Chicago’s Failed Promise of Police Reform appeared first on T…