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Chicago Fires Investigator Who Found Cops At Fault In Shootings

“They have shot people dead when they did not have to shoot,” … “They were not in reasonable fear for their lives.

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Lorenzo Davis, 65, was the only supervisor at Chicago’s Independent Police Review Authority who resisted orders to change findings about shootings, according to an evaluation by IPRA obtained by WBEZ. Since 2007, IPRA has investigated nearly 400 civilian shootings by officers and found one to be unjustified.

A Chicago investigator who determined that several civilian shootings by police officers were unjustified was fired after resisting orders to reverse those findings, according to internal records of his agency obtained by WBEZ. Scott M. Ando, chief administrator of the city’s Independent Police Review Authority, informed its staff in a July 9

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