Alderman Lyle and Alderman Shiller

This is why Alderman Shiller joined with Alderman Lyle five years ago to force the city to add certain accountability clauses to the Chicago police contract.  Those clauses, including allowing investigators to go back five-years into an officer's record (whereas before they could only go back one year) are exactly the same tools that investigators have recently used to ferret-out corrupt officers, in recent high-profile cases.

"The simple truth is that the vast majority of police officers should be happy that we now have these tools.  Because as long as the corrupt officers remained on the force, they cast a cloud over all of the hard-working clean officers," explained Shiller.  "Everyone needs accountability.  And those people with good intentions generally welcome accountability."