Commentary: Chicago’s Consent Decree: Legal Extortion – Chicago Contrarian

Tom Weitzel, retired chief of the Riverside Police Department: "Police departments should be highly scrutinized, perform to peak performance, and occasionally have outside agencies review their policies and practices. Still, it is police experts and the residents they serve who should be involved in this important, necessary, meaningful, crucial, and critical oversight. Community members pay taxes for police services, and the community knows what type of policing it wants. That kind of oversight is superior to any consent decree. "