When the Chicago City Council created an independent agency in 2007 to review officer-involved shootings and allegations of misconduct, aldermen called the move a powerful way to reform the Police Department.
Now, a law firm that has won several large judgments in brutality cases is targeting the Independent Police Review Authority, accusing the agency of stalling a brutality case and concealing the names of the officers involved.
"They keep saying they are legit, but their actions say otherwise," says Jon Loevy, of the law firm Loevy & Loevy. "Whenever the police do something wrong, they refuse to close the investigation. It's hard not to see IPRA as just another cog in the machine." Read more...
