Note that this op-ed is from last year and the report it discusses came out almost a full year ago, in April 2016.<p>The link to the 190-page report on the NYT site is broken; it can be found here: <a href="https://chicagopatf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/PATF_Final_Report_4_13_16-1.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://chicagopatf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/PATF_Fina...</a><p>What's incredible is that a report of this length on the abuses of the CPD does not even mention Homan Square, the CPD's "black site" where over 7,000 people were detailed without access to a lawyer over the course of a decade and many were tortured into making a confession.<p><i>The Guardian</i> reported on Homan Square in 2015: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/19/homan-square-chicago-police-disappeared-thousands" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/19/homan-square...</a>
The video mentioned is here (might be graphic): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix2N6_jLAgA" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix2N6_jLAgA</a><p>The police report said he lunged at the officer, the video shows that wasn't the case. I hope we see increased body cam usage and availability of data as time goes forward, because the culture of covering up police crimes is a perversion of the point of civic duty. I hate that it has to be Police vs the People.
I wonder how closely the racial breakdown of who gets shot by police matches the racial breakdown of who commits murder.<p>I also think it's silly to act indignant about a disproportionate amount of police misconduct happening to a group that commits a disproportionate amount of crime.<p>In fact, if the volume of misconduct matches volume of crime (eg, same number of mishandled incidents for number of calls), that's evidence they <i>arent</i> racist, because you'd expect racists to have misconduct at a higher-than-usual rate for the amount of crime they're responding to.