155 Recommendations

Hopefully this works as planned.

This is a link to what we will call the Index Page. 

As you scroll through, there are more embedded links that take you to different documents, including General Orders and related documents, some of which are then annotated in different forms.

We'll be frank here - it's tedious. 

It's also obvious that many members of this group had a tenuous grasp of the English language and even less understanding of legal terminology. People made fun of Slick Willie for saying "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." But he understood exactly what he was doing and demonstrated exactly why lawyers get rich litigating what a lay person would think is an obvious phrase or clause. 

This working group uses loaded terms on every single page, looking toward the day when they would have to prosecute an Officer using inflammatory language in front of a jury composed of Cook County voters. And - if you can believe it - the proposals include numerous unrealistic deadlines undercutting just about every Contractual protection currently in place. There are also more than a few technological impossibilities, such as thinking body cameras can run far beyond the manufacturer's battery specs.

It's no wonder the Department is only undertaking five of these proposals at the moment.