Democrat Party War: Lisa Madigan asks for U.S. probe of Chicago police

Crain's Chicago Business reports:

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan today jumped with all limbs into the Laquan McDonald shooting, asking for a U.S. Department of Justice probe into "whether practices by the Chicago Police Department violate" federal law.

In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Madigan asked for an investigation into the CPD's use of force, the adequacy of its internal investigation of officers and the adequacy of its training.

Madigan said the investigation by the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is necessary and appropriate given not only the McDonald shooting but abuse by former CPS Commander Jon Burge.

The letter also references a series of other shootings by police officers and the conviction of former officer Jerome Finnegan for seeking to have a fellow cop murdered.

400 reviews of shootings since 2007 by the Independent Police Review Authority, the city agency that reviews the department, "found only one to be unjustified," Madigan's letter says. And other data show that over the past five years, white complainants were seven times more likely to have complaints sustained by the city than African-Americans, even as African-Americans filed three times more complaints.

Democrat party war in Illinois. Corruption is a problem in Chicago.