“The public’s attention is on this,” said Karen Sheley, director of the Police Practices Project at the ACLU of Illinois, a member of the coalition that has been meeting in recent weeks to strategize about lobbying for reform. “[But] it’s not going to be possible unless people put pressure on their alderman and put pressure on the mayor to have a contract that demands real accountability.”
Activists are targeting provisions that shield officers from accountability for reform but the process is unlikely to be easy, or cheap.
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