Chicago Police TIMEPublished in collaboration with The Marshall Project. By Simone Weichselbaum. Just a few months ago, the Chicago police department was regarded as Americas laboratory of police science. As the countrys most violent big city struggled to contain an epidemic of deadly shootings, the police force opened itself up to top criminologists, law professors and sociologists. Theories drawn up at Harvard and other bastions of elite thought were being taught to, and in some instances practiced by, the nations second biggest police agency. Superintendent Garry Mc. Carthy, Chicagos top cop at the time, preached a gospel of reducing crime by fostering healthy relationships between police and the communities they serveespecially black communities. Shula Neuman is the executive editor at St. Louis Public Radio. She came the station in late 2013 as a subject matter editor, after having worked as an editor for NPR. 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Policymakers nationwide were intrigued by Chicagos alliance of academics and law enforcement, and the Chicago model of policing strategies influenced departments from Oakland, Calif., to New York City. The Justice Department is spending millions of dollars promoting ideas hatched in the Chicago workshop. A policing task force formed by President Obama after the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., recommended that cities adopt some of Chicagos strategies. Think tanks at Yale, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and UCLA are touting its innovations. But days after Thanksgiving, Chicagos reform engine stalled. Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired Mc. Carthy, calling him a distraction, after protests erupted over the delayed release of a police video that showed a white officer firing 1. Laquan Mc. Donald. An array of academic theories and programs nurtured by Mc. Carthy are now in limbo. On March 1. 5, angry Chicago voters threw out the states attorney, Anita Alvarez, in a primary election viewed as a referendum on police excesses and the perceived indifference of city hall. On April 1. 1, another teenager was shot dead by an officer. Christmas With Mantovani. And two days later a committee appointed by the mayor excoriated the police for a long history of entrenched racism and abusive conduct. The same day, the city council confirmed Mc. Carthys successor Eddie Johnson, a department veteran who is not known as a reformer. Meanwhile, the city is on track for its bloodiest year since the late 1. Justice Department lawyers are in town preparing what is expected to be a years long federal takeover of the police department. Even the United Nations has weighed in, dispatching a delegation to study racial disparities in the citys law enforcement. Police officers, their supervisors and their unions have hunkered down. If we are going to be hammered for everything that we do, then its safer to do nothing, says Sergeant James Ade, who runs Chicagos police sergeants union. If we dont do anything, then we cant get hammered. All of which begs the question of how a city with so many problems became the template for Americas efforts to reform police community relations. If the Chicago model has failed this city, does the fault lie with the model, or with Chicago And what does that mean for other cities where police are struggling to redefine their mission Part 2. It takes only 2. Chicagos skyline to the citys most violent police district, the 1. West Side. The districtknown as Harrison, a reference to the street address of its station houseis a three mile wide stretch that includes some 7. One was Bettie Jones, a 5. African American grandmother who rented a three bedroom apartment in the Austin neighborhood, a gang infested sliver where roughly one family in three lives in poverty. In the early hours of the day after Christmas, Bettie Jones answered a rapping on her front door and admitted a young police officer responding to a call from the landlord, who lived upstairs. The landlord had summoned police to subdue his teenage son, who had a history of mental health issues. He reported that the teenager was trying to break into his bedroom with a bat. Moments later the officer, 2. Thanksgiving Math Worksheets Pdf there. Robert Rialmo, fired eight rounds from his 9mm Smith Wesson handgun, killing his intended targetthe teenager, who had run downstairs brandishing the batalong with Bettie Jones. She was hit in the chest and collapsed backward into her apartment, her blood streaming onto her living room floor. By nightfall, the police department had issued a press release describing Jones death as an accident. Rialmo was pulled off the street, and in a bizarre twist he filed a 1. February, contending that the sequence of events set off by the teenager had caused him extreme emotional trauma. Latonya Jones, one of Bettie Jones 1. She would tell us, I dont want yall outside late all the time. Because these police out there are trigger happy. And theyre ready to shoot anybody. I dont want yall out there. Be in this house with me. What happened next disclosed another side to the neighborhoods mistrust of police. A week after their mothers funeral, Bettie Jones younger brother Lawrence called 9. His 2. 2 inch television was gone. And so was his sisters diamond ring. His nieces clothes and Nike Air Jordans were missing too. Local gang members had apparently kicked in the front door, looted the blood splashed apartment, then posted selfies of their invasion on Facebook. I didnt have a problem with calling the police, Lawrence Jones says. Regardless of the fact that my sister was murdered by the police. But the family says police took down their story and never followed up. They aint doing nothin, says another Jones daughter, 3. Latoya Nicole. They are like, We dont care. Her sister Latonya added, I felt they were saying, F ck my momma. Lizz Giordano The Marshall Project. Latonya Jones, 1. Bettie Jones daughters, says she may leave Chicago after her mother was killed by police. Thats life in the 1. Too much policing and too little policingboth at the same time. Too much warrior, not enough guardian. Police in the cityspeaking scornfully and without department permissionsay the idea of a guardian force implies passivity and weakness. You dont stand guard in a war zone, they say. If you want to be a guardian in Chicago, be prepared to start going to a lot of cops funerals, says Rialmo during a series of interviews with the Marshall Project, his first since the shooting. Rialmo, 6 ft. 2 in. His father, who is Mexican American, is a city fireman his mothers brother, a mix of Italian and Irish, is a veteran cop assigned to police headquarters. After high school, Rialmo spent six years with the Marines, including an assignment in Iraq, where he patrolled the streets of Tikrit as a machine gunner on a humvee. He had always wanted to follow his father into the fire department. But because the test for police officers came sooner, he took that instead and became one of many war veterans who have gravitated to policing. Lizz GiordanoThe Marshall Project. Blood from the night Bettie Jones was fatally shot by police remains on a door to the vestibule of her apartment. He ended up assigned to the 1. Chicagos most persistent problems. Rialmo, at his lawyers insistence, would say little about the death of Bettie Jones.