two months before he left office – or mention that he proposed building the facility after a 2017 investigation by the Department of Justice found Chicago police officers were graduating from the department’s five-month academy “unprepared to police lawfully and effectively.”
“Putting this edifice to policing in this high-crime, impoverished neighborhood where relations between the police and the community are fraught, without a clear plan for community engagement, is a mistake,” Lightfoot told the City Club at the time. The facility will also include a new 18,000-square-foot location Boys & Girls Club and two restaurants, Peaches and Culver’s. Emanuel added those eateries — both owned by African Americans — to the facility as opposition rose to the proposal.Lightfoot said the “proximity” of the teens who come to the club will “break down barriers” between them and Chicago police officers, who will be able to “see these kids as they are” as they interact in a facility designed to be pedestrian friendly.
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