By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News

(CHICAGO) — U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was in Chicago Friday where he told the Chicago Crime Commission a consent decree for police department reforms isn’t necessary.

Sessions goes so far as to say that the initial ACLU agreement already has caused a spike in crime.

“This agreement did not have to happen, Sessions said. “In 2015 and 2016 Chicago had the same police department, the same prosecutors, but the results were different dramatically. You don’t need a study to know why that happened, however we have one. Former federal Judge Paul Cassell and Professor Richard Fowles of the University of Utah examined what happened here, considered a number of possible causes and found that the cause of virtually all the rise in homicides was the ACLU agreement.”

Sessions says control over the department’s future should be in the hands of local governments and not a federal judge.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel however disagrees and believes a consent decree is best for the future of the department.

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