By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM 890 News
(CHICAGO) At City Hall, the chief of the new Civilian Office of Police Accountability is assembling a group of community advisers who, she says, aren’t “yes men.”
Here at the hall in city budget hearings, COPA chief Sharon Fairley told Hyde Park alderman Leslie Hairston she’s forming a community advisory board from real and critical activists.
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With or without Moe, Larry and Curly, Fairley said COPA won’t be fully up and operating before August or September at city hall.