Lorenzo Davis, a former Chicago police chief who went on to be an investigator for the Independent Police Review Authority (IPRA), has been fired after concluding multiple civilian shootings by police were unjustified.
According to Davis, in the cases in which officers involved in shootings were exonerated, he never received any backlash. He says there were six instances where he found the shooting to be unjustified (some investigations are still ongoing, so he could not comment on specifics), and this is when his superiors had problems with the findings.
However, Davis stood by his investigations at IPRA: “[The officers] have shot people dead when they did not have to shoot,” he said. “They were not in reasonable fear for their lives. The evidence shows that the officer knew, or should have known, that the person who they shot was not armed or did not pose a threat to them or could have been apprehended by means short of deadly force.”
