She isn’t the first incoming Chicago mayor to have pledged to overhaul a department accused for decades of abuses. But with a court-monitored plan, or consent decree, recently approved by U.S. District Judge Robert Dow, she has the best chance of actually getting it done. “I believe she’s a true reformer,” said Phil Turner, who like Lightfoot, is a former federal prosecutor in Chicago. Dow’s ability to hold people in contempt if they don’t adhere to reforms only goes so far, Turner said. But the consent decree doesn’t spell out how much the city should spend — something Lightfoot has criticized.

Source: thestar May 20, 2019 04:18 UTC