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April 14, 2016

Report Finds Rampant Racism in Chicago Police Department
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In Chicago, a task force appointed by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has
found evidence of rampant racism within the Chicago Police Department.
The report finds the police department's own data "gives validity to the
widely held belief the police have no regard for the sanctity of life
when it comes to people of color." Despite equal proportions of black,
white and Latino residents in Chicago, 74 percent of the more than 400
people shot by Chicago police between 2008 and 2015 were black. Black
people also made up 72 percent of people stopped on the street-but not
arrested-in the summer of 2014, and three out of four people on whom
Chicago police tried to use Tasers between 2012 and 2015. The report
comes as Mayor Emanuel faces calls to resign over a possible cover-up of
the police killing of Laquan Mc Donald, the teen shot 16 times in 2014.
Topics:Chicago Police Police Brutality Racism

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