Church-Based Activist Group Calls For Creating Chicago Police Auditor To Enforce Reforms
(CBS) -- A church-based activist organization has used the Martin Luther King Holiday to call on local officials to back reforms in the Chicago Police Department, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
At the West Side's First Baptist Congregational Church it was one part religious assembly and one part political organizing as leaders of the Community Renewal Society called for passage of what's called the FAIR COPS ordinance.
Rev. Robert Biekman says it would create a police auditor with the power to enforce any recommendations for reform.
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"We need a independent police auditor that would be appointed by a third party where there would be true independence," he said. "No more blue-ribbon commissions. No more special task forces."
Four aldermen present, Walter Burnett, Emma Mitts, Rick Munoz and Roderick Sawyer, pledged to support and sponsor the measure.
