We have notorious police officers here. Jon Burge and others who have done horrible things, cost the city literally hundreds of millions of dollars. And yet Jon Burge, one of the most notorious police, torturers, probably in the United States, he died collecting his pension.
Mayor Lightfoot highlights the issue of police officers retaining pensions despite misconduct.
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We've got to start by licensing police officers and I call for that today. We've got to change state laws so that we have a baseline of conduct that's acceptable and that we eliminate the problem of so-called past the trap where an officer gets disgraced, gets fired, and then he just moves down the road to the next town.
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I'm deeply sorry. It simply should not have happened. And I will make sure that there is full accountability for what took place.
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