After Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot downplayed her administration’s slow implementation of police reforms during a speech in 2020, a lawyer for the Illinois attorney general responded in court by criticizing the city’s handling of the consent decree.
The texts with Raoul — recently released to the Tribune as part of an open records request — came in June 2020, 1 ½ years into aIllinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, pictured in 2021, responded to the mayor via text: “I don’t believe anything that my lawyers conveyed was a ‘cheap political shot.’"
The attorney general’s office sued to force Chicago police reform efforts, citing a federal civil rights investigation “that confirmed what many Chicago residents already knew — that CPD has a history of serious problems endangering the lives of both residents and police officers.
Pryor appeared to have taken issue with Lightfoot’s implication that the consent decree itself is not meeting reform needs. To the contrary, Pryor said, the city and the Police Department were failing to meet the minimum requirements of the document, pointing to numerous missed deadlines in the early months of the consent decree timeline.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot, shown speaking at the Shedd Aquarium on Jan. 27, said in a text to Raoul: “I know you are pissed at me, but throwing gasoline on a raging fire is stupid and irresponsible.
Late last year, the Tribune published a trove of text messages revealing the extent to which the mayor — who campaigned as a reformer aiming to unite the city — has sometimes resorted to name-calling and shaming of her perceived enemies as she governs the city. Since the hearing more than a year ago, the Police Department has increased its rate of compliance with the consent decree — missing fewer deadlines in recent reports and coming into at least some compliance with more than half of the provisions reviewed so far. Department leaders have stressed that it takes years to comply with a consent decree.
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