On Monday, Rev. Al Sharpton issued a series of recommendations for reforming the Chicago police department as he repeated his threat to lobby against the city's Olympic bid.
If he doesn't hear from Mayor Richard Daley before Dec. 29, Sharpton said, he will announce a date when he and people alleging police abuse will leave for an international tour to tell their stories.
"The Olympics can be a point of leverage for people in this city that have not been able to get direct action by the city fathers," said Sharpton, president of the civil rights group National Action Network.
Sharpton recommended that the U.S. Justice Department take control of the city's police force; that the city reject Mayor Daley's choice for police superintendant, J.P. "Jody" Weiss, because of what Sharpton called a lack of community input into his selection; and that the head of the Independent Police Review Authority be prohibited from speaking publicly about misconduct cases until agency investigations are completed.
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