Long-awaited community public safety oversight board aims to give Chicagoans ‘a stronger voice in how they are policed’

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The concept of the community policing panel has been hotly debated for years.

Adam Gross, executive director of the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability, speaks as Mayor Lori Lightfoot announces the interim members of the commission Monday.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot takes a photo with the interim members of the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability and others Aug. 29, 2022, at City Hall. The Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability — which has been debated intensely over the past five years in a process that drew input from dozens of community groups — is considered key not only to police reform but to ensuring that Chicago residents have more say in how public safety is achieved in the city. Lightfoot and aldermen, aligned with community activists, reached agreement last summer on an ordinance creating the commission, which passed the City Council.

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