Currently OPS is housed within the police department–which only makes sense to those who remember that it was created because allegations of police abuse were once investigated by the department’s Internal Affairs division, which reported to the police chief, which reported to the first Mayor Daley. That didn’t work.
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Channel 7’s Andy Shaw then directly asked Brookins if the aldermen were saying that Daley has too poor a track record–as mayor and as the state’s attorney who did nothing about police torture under former commander Jon Burge–to be responsible for the agency that polices the police.
This one, Lance, I can’t buy. The mayor’s press conference was held within a half hour, and it seemed pretty unlikely that anyone was going to transcribe the Brookins-Fioretti interviews in time for the mayor to review them.
Later, when the mayor was asked if the 11 “no” votes bothered him, he engaged in a classic Daley deflection. “No, I think public art is really important in Chicago,” he said. “I think we need more of it.”
