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Chicago Tribune - United State
09 December 2007
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Chicago: Fight police brutalit
Rev. Al Sharpton has a message for the city of Chicago: Do something about police brutality or he will work to ensure that the 2016 Olympics won't come to Chicago.
Sharpton is demanding that the city show evidence of "concrete steps" to address what he calls "rampant police brutality and misconduct" in the Chicago Police Department.
If it can't, Sharpton said, he is prepared to lobby the International Olympic Committee to take Chicago's bid out of consideration for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.
"There has not been a real response, in terms of a concrete, this-is-what-we're-going-to-do" plan, Sharpton said. "The mayor cannot go around the world acting like it's a beautiful city to come to when we've got this glaring problem."
Sharpton's ultimatum comes a few months after the formation of a Chicago branch of his National Action Network, a civil rights organization he established in 1991. A main focus of the Chicago group has been addressing the relationship between city residents and police.
"Chicago is almost in mass denial," Sharpton said of the city confronting its record on police brutality. "You can't even point to where a judicial process has ever responded . . . The cops are always right."
Sharpton said he is looking for evidence of a good-faith effort from Mayor Richard Daley—for whom the Olympics would be a capstone to his legacy in office—to respond to evidence of police brutality with prosecutions and community meetings.
"He has more than enough time to get the city on track," Sharpton said, before fall 2009, when a host city is expected to be selected for the 2016 games.
Chicago became the U.S. Olympic Committee's official bid to host the Olympic Games in the spring.
The demands of Sharpton's campaign, which will begin Monday, rest mostly on Daley's office. Among them, Sharpton said he will ask the mayor to establish a civilian review board to address complaints of police misconduct and assess the city's response to them. He said he also plans to demand that Daley and newly appointed police Supt. Jody Weis articulate a workable solution for prosecuting cases of misconduct by police.
The results of a recent eight-month investigation by the Chicago Tribune revealed that in the last decade, nearly every inquiry into a police shooting found that police had been "justified" in firing their weapons.
"For the life of me, I can't understand how he feels every policeman is right," Sharpton said.
Calls to the mayor's spokespeople and e-mails to Chicago police spokeswoman Monique Bond Sunday were not returned. Patrick Sandusky, a spokesman for the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid committee, declined to comment.
In the last several weeks, Chicago officials have disbanded a controversial Special Operations Section and installed Weis, a former FBI officer who investigated corrupt police, as the next head of the Police Department.
But Sharpton said those moves aren't enough.
If the Olympic Games come to Chicago, experts have said, it will mean a revitalizing boost to city businesses and to the Washington Park-area neighborhoods on the South Side that will likely become sites for events.
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