"Trust in the Chicago Police Department is broken. Chicago cannot move ahead and rebuild trust between the police and the community without an outside, independent investigation into its police department to improve policing practices," Madigan said in a statement.
"Data collected by the Citizens Police Data Project shows that from 2011 to 2015, 97% of more than 28,500 citizen complaints resulted in no officer being punished," Madigan said in her December 1, 2015 letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
“The (Laquan) McDonald shooting is also not the only recent, troubling action by CPD officers,” Madigan said.
Madigan goes on to list five incidents in the past four years, which she says raise “serious questions about practices that are incompatible with lawful and effective policing and have resulted in severe damage to the community’s trust in the CPD,” including:
- Ronald Johnson, shot and killed in October 2014 by Detective George Hernandez;
- Former Commander Glenn Evans charged in August 2014 after he allegedly stuck his gun into the mouth of a suspect;
- Three people hurt when Officer Marco Proano fired more than 12 rounds into a car full of unarmed teenagers in December 2013;
- Officer Dante Servin facing current possibility of termination – he was found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter after he shot an unarmed woman in March 2012; and
- Officer Jerome Finnegan was convicted of trying to have a fellow officer murdered in 2011, and Finnegan was one of the officers who posed for a photo with a suspect on whom they put antlers.