Bill Cameron interviews Locke E. Bowman – MacArthur Justice Center Executive Director, overseeing the Center’s operations at Northwestern University School of Law. Changing the infrastructure of the Chicago Police Department and actions of it’s officers as they deal with citizens. What can break the “Blue Line/Code of Silence” among officers? The new ​Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) office is designed to revamp investigations into police shootings and officer misconduct. Are the rules vague? Locke thinks the rules are not emphatic enough to encourage officers to report details to the COPA office following incidents. Will ‘the community’ be able to have any authority into the changes and enforcement of the new rules. City Hall has settled several cases involving police use of force shootings; does this send a message to citizens that there is a problem in the CPD that still needs to be addressed.

Then Bill Cameron’s roundtable with Lynn Sweet of the Sun-Times, and Greg Hinz of Crain’s. It’s the Rahm and Don meeting… as Donald Trump meets with Mayor Rahm Emanuel in New York city. Topics covered were hopefully more than a discussion of the removal of the honorary street signs from the Chicago Trump Tower Plaza. Will Trump have any influence with Chicago based companies, such as Boeing, which the President elect chastised in a tweet earlier in the week.

With a few weeks to go before the current “stop gap” budget expires, there doesn’t appear to be any progress between Speaker, Michael Madigan and Governor, Bruce Rauner in resolving the state’s budget issue. As Senator, Mark Kirk steps down, Tammy Duckworth begins the transition process in Washington D.C.

Nick Gale looks at Chicago Aldermen and advocates pushing for a resolution condemning Islamophobia and anti-Muslim violence in Chicago and nationally.

The Progressive Caucus has pursued this initiative as part of a national campaign spearheaded by Local Progress, a national network of progressive municipal elected leaders, of which the Progressive Caucus is part. Via that campaign, similar resolutions have passed in major cities all over the country, including San Francisco, New York City, New Orleans and Washington, D.C.​

The resolution passed out of committee and heads to the full council on Dec. 14.