As Lightfoot ponders a fix, city’s handling of fatal shootings by cops continues to violate state law – Chicago Sun-Times*

Under the 2016 Illinois Police and Community Relations Act, which governs investigations regarding whether a police officer who has shot someone to death should be charged with a crime, a criminal investigation into a fatal shooting by police has to be done by two investigators from outside the agency that employs the officer involved.

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