As Rahm Emanuel Panders to the Black Communities - Chicago’s staggering rise in (Negro) gun violence and killings
The Chicago Police Department has been under a national microscope since video footage, released last year, showed one of its officers firing more than a dozen bullets at 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
Prosecutors charged the officer, Jason Van Dyke, with murder on the same day the recording was released over the objections of city officials. Intense protests followed, the city’s police superintendent was dismissed, and the Justice Department announced aninvestigation of the Chicago police force.
This week, Mayor Rahm Emanuel — shrugging off recommendations made by the city’s police board — selected Eddie Johnson, the department’s chief of patrol, as the new interim police superintendent. Johnson, a Chicago native who has been on the force for more than a quarter of a century, takes over the nation’s second-biggest local law enforcement agency as it faces a dip in officer morale and a surge in violence that the department called “unacceptably high” in a statement Friday.
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