CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s inspector general concludes that the city’s police review authority made no mention of 49 shootings by officers in recent years in its quarterly reports and could not produce any records at all in six of those shootings.
In a report released Tuesday, Inspector General Joseph Ferguson found that numbers provided in the Independent Police Review Authority’s quarterly reporting between late 2007 and 2014 didn’t match the number of incidents in which people were hit or not hit.
Further, the number of times officers used Tasers didn’t match in reports from October 2013 until September 2014.
IPRA’s head, Sharon Fairley, says the agency had no records indicating the police department notified the agency of the six shootings.
A police spokesman had no immediate comment on the report.
