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Jason Van Dyke

In this Jan. 18, 2019, file photo, former Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke is escorted into the courtroom for his sentencing hearing in Chicago, for the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald.

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Former CPD officer Jason Van Dyke to be released from prison

The 2014 murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald and the trial of his shooter, former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke, was supposed to be a watershed moment for the Chicago Police Department and the city itself.

Ahead of Van Dyke’s early release from prison Thursday, Reset discusses how much Chicago and CPD have changed in the last three years with an attorney who led the negotiations of Chicago’s consent decree and a law professor.

GUESTS: Shareese Pryor, senior staff counsel and director of justice reform at BPI Chicago

Ekow N. Yankah, professor at Cardozo School of Law

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