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Brazil criticizes Britain for
Brazil's government voiced "disapproval" that British authorities would not charge several London police over the killing of an innocent Brazilian and warned it was considering criminal proceedings.
"To show its disapproval of the decision in light of the circumstances in which the tragic death occurred, the foreign ministry instructed the consulate general to discuss with its lawyers the future prospects for a criminal trial," the government said in a statement released late Friday.
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Chicago Sun-Times - Chicago,IL
15 February 2007
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Brown vows Police Board overha
Mayoral challenger Dorothy Brown vowed today to overhaul the Police Board and the Office of Professional Standards and seriously consider realigning police beats to remove what she called the “long shadow” over the Chicago Police Department cast by former Lt. Jon Burge.
In 2003, Daley turned his back on a campaign promise to realign Chicago’s 279 police beats, arguing that it would undermine community policing and deprive middle-class neighborhoods of the officers they need to deter crime.
Instead of picking a fight with aldermen from middle-class wards by enlarging police beats, Daley chose the path of least resistance.
He changed the way the city’s 400 gang officers are assigned and established an elite unit of officers deployed to crime “hot spots” based on crime reports funneled into a new deployment operations center.
Today, Brown re-opened the beat realignment controversy. She said she would seriously consider it to permanently redeploy officers to high-crime neighborhoods and reverse a 3 percent uptick in Chicago’s homicide rate.
“We don’t have adequate policing in some communities. . . . There is a need to have the Chicago Police Department to be fairly and equitably placed throughout the city of Chicago. I have heard from many citizens . . . that beats [are not] being patrolled in some communities. . . . We absolutely will review the beats as they are now and determine whether or not a beat realignment is necessary,” she said.
Last fall, the director of the Police Department’s Office of Professional Standards was forced out in the wake of the cops-as-burglars scandal in the elite Special Operations Sections to improve the image of an agency that’s been a lightning rod for criticism in the black community.
To restore public confidence shaken by the torture allegations against Burge, Brown said she would appoint an OPS director recommended by civic and community groups and have that person report directly to the mayor — not to the police superintendent.
A similar system would be put in place for the selection of Police Board members charged with disciplining wayward officers. As mayor, Brown said she would choose only those members recommended by civic and community groups.
“People tend to feel that those positions are plum positions. They feel beholden to the mayor. I don’t want them to be beholden to me. I don’t want them to be beholden to the superintendent. I want them to be completely independent to do their jobs,” she said.
Brown also promised to: install more cameras in squad cars; order “cultural sensitivity training” for police officers; breathe new life into community policing; and intensify the recruitment of minority officers. She wants to bridge a “racial divide” of police mistrust that shows 64 percent of whites, but only 40 percent of blacks, give favorable ratings to the Chicago Police, according to a recent survey.
During today’s news conference, Brown also revealed plans to spend the night at the home of an Englewood senior citizen to get a feel for the security concerns that area residents live with every day.
Brown denied that the Englewood sleepover was a publicity stunt akin to former Mayor Jane Byrne’s infamous move to the Cabrini-Green public housing complex.
“I am not bringing bullet-proof pajamas to Englewood. I’m staying with a senior citizen who has lived there for a lifetime and has not had any problems there,” she said.
Last year, a long-awaited special prosecutor’s report concluded that Burge and his Area 2 detective cohorts tortured criminal suspects for two decades while police brass looked the other way. But, the report concluded that it’s too late to prosecute because the statute of limitations has long since run out.
Daley, who was Cook County state’s attorney during the 1980s, was faulted for failing to follow up on a 1982 letter from then-Police Supt. Richard Brzeczek that strongly suggested abuse in the case of accused cop killer Andrew Wilson.
The mayor responded by accepting his share of responsibility for what he called “this shameful episode in our history.” But, he categorically denied that he deliberately looked the other way to avoid jeopardizing either his political ambitions or the prosecution of an accused cop killer.
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