Rahm Emanuel downplays Chicago police controversy

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

After nearly three months in the eye of the storm, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is downplaying the crisis of confidence caused by the police shooting of Laquan McDonald, arguing that every Chicago mayor and virtually every American city have faced a similar police crisis.

“On the police use of force, this is not [new]. Everybody knows we have had other issues as it relates to the Abbate case, the Burge torture, the Summerdale [district scandal]. Every mayor, my predecessors — have dealt with this in one way or another,” Emanuel said during a taping of the WLS-AM (890) Radio program, “Connected to Chicago,” to be broadcast at 7 p.m. Sunday.

“I am determined that this opportunity not be lost and that we finally fix what’s broken in the system — not just in the police department and not just in the oversight and accountability, although that’s important. But also in the more important part to me: the relationship building that has to happen between the community and the police department.”

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