Community Renewal Society: Officers Get Away With Too Much

By Chip Mitchell
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Community Renewal Society organizers at a gathering to get commitments from aldermen and commissioners for a Chicago Police Accountability Program in 2015. On Sunday, the coalition led simultaneous prayer vigils and blockades at nearly all of Chicago’s 22 police district stations. Robert Macabuhay / flickr
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Community Renewal Society organizers at a gathering to get commitments from aldermen and commissioners for a Chicago Police Accountability Program in 2015. On Sunday, the coalition led simultaneous prayer vigils and blockades at nearly all of Chicago’s 22 police district stations. Robert Macabuhay / flickr

Community Renewal Society: Officers Get Away With Too Much

By Chip Mitchell
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A church coalition celebrated Palm Sunday by holding protests at Chicago police stations.

The Community Renewal Society says officers get away with too much brutality, so it wants a police auditor’s office independent of the mayor. On Sunday, the coalition led simultaneous prayer vigils and blockades at nearly all of Chicago’s 22 police district stations. 

At the Jefferson Park station, they faced opposition from two aldermen. WGN-TV showed Anthony Napolitano and Nick Sposato wearing blue T-shirts that said, “Police Lives Matter.”