J-Fed's Initial Proposal

This is the information we were talking about last night. It comes to us second hand, but the source is 100% trustworthy. If they say it happened, it happened. It seems that J-Fed was having a meeting with an individual who shall remain nameless, but this individual wears more than two bars on their collar. During the conversation, J-Fed told this person that it was his intent to get rid of the Round Table process completely.

Now we know that earlier this year or late last year, the Cook County State's Attorney was looking to pull out of the Round Table process because of the political heat. Some reporter and his tame professor were insisting that the Round Table was nothing more than a cover up of all the involved parties and in the midst of a hotly contested State's Attorney race, even the hint of a scandal could sink a campaign. Besides, it's easier to say that the State's Attorney's office might be prosecuting a police shooting one day, so it didn't make sense for them to be there in case it compromised the investigation, regardless of the fact that if at any time there was an allegation of criminal wrongdoing, the Round Table process (Administrative) would stop and another investigation (Criminal) would begin.

The reason that J-Fed wanted to do away with the Round Table?

• All Officers involved in a shooting were to be indicted the following day by a Grand Jury.

You read that correctly. J-Fed wanted officers indicted. We don't know if this was to circumvent Administrative investigations. We don't know if this was to abrogate contractual protections. We don't know if this was to be some half-assed attempt to remove CPD entirely from the investigatory process of police shootings.

But if this doesn't tell you exactly what type of Department the mayor wants and exactly what type of Department that J-Fed is attempting to give him, we don't know how to make it any clearer.