Chicago's police oversight board has a new leader.

Military is now the president of the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability.

The 7 person commissions, responsibilities include helping set policy for the Chicago Police Department.

Reviewing CPD is budget and working with the Department on community policing programs.

The commission is also charged with selecting the next chief administrator of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, Copa the agency tasked with investigating misconduct by Chicago police officers has been without a permanent leader since February.

And joining us now is for military president of the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability.

Welcome back to the program.

Thank you so much for having Absolutely as so.

As we mentioned, you're leading the commission during its work to help choose a new leader for Copa.

Briefly, remind us what that what Kopas role is.

Yes.

So we see the work of Copa extremely important.

When we think about police oversight, right and accountability.

>> And so Copa is the investigatory body that investigates police involved shootings, anything that deals with excessive misconduct, excessive force, even if someone is hurt significantly or dies in police custody.

So they are responsible for doing those investigations.

And following those investigations, they provide recommendations on their Whether there needs to be disciplinary action and what that does Larry Action needs to look like.

>> Have yet interviewed the 5 finalists.

>> We have done our first round of interviews and so we will be going into a second round.

But unlike the initial search that paid plenty of people are familiar with in the superintendent.

This is unique because we get to choose the finalist.

And so we will not be announcing any nominees as we did previously in the superintendent search that led to Superintendent Snelling.

So you won't hear about this until we settled on a final candidate.

>> And as to that final candidate, are you still on track to send nomination to city council by the end of this year?

>> Yes, we are still on track.

Proud to say that we are still on track.

We've been working diligently with our search and internally with managing all of the commissioners schedules to meet that deadline.

So we're really excited about what's to come schedules something juggle.

I can imagine with that large of a body.

>> You know, so Chicago this this late summer and fall saw a massive surge in federal immigration agents.

lot of advocates were concerned that Chicago police may have violated the welcoming city ordinance by facilitating immigration enforcement.

You know, should that be borne out?

Does that further set back efforts to build trust between residents and CPD?

>> Yeah, I would proud to say we have not heard of any engagement from the department related to that.

And we've been forthcoming accountable in addressing those concerns.

We brought out the deputy chief to speak about the work of the department.

>> And their role as it relates to the welcome City City ordinance and ensuring that they are not engaging that activity because we do understand the impact that that can have it.

So we definitely encourage those who if they have those concerns to share those concerns, if you've seen things share them with because we want to ensure that our department is adhering to that welcome City ordinance.

of the folks he's raised concerns is the 12th District Police Council chair Arctic and Taro.

>> He called for a public hearing to port investigate interactions between the CPD and federal immigration and Border enforcement agencies since January 2025.

>> And also requested the testimony of Superintendent Snelling and the 22 district commanders to talk about compliance with the welcoming city ordinance or those hearings that you anticipate holding necessarily?

>> Well, actually have a meeting planned with the Secant arrow to have a conversation to just gain understanding of his findings in ensuring that whatever we convene, whether it's a hearing or even going a step further than that, making sure that we're all in alignment and understanding what impact we're seeking to have and making sure we have the right people at the table to have that conversation.

So we have an upcoming hearing.

Still more to come about that and we invite you all to participate.

Absolutely.

know a lot of eyes will be on that, including You know, there's been a significant increase in police use of force against Chicago.

And since 2022.

>> Attorney General Kwame Raoul is office recently warned that that could threaten already slow process of full compliance with the consent decree deep to share those concerns?

Well, I would say I would have to do more research on the findings that Attorney General Raul has come up with because I'm not well-versed in that.

>> But if that is, in fact, the case, of course, that would write any sort increase of any type of force from the department can impact that.

And so we are significantly concerned about that.

And we hope that if he did these things are happening, that those issues are raised with us so that we can partner with the department to address these concerns.

And also with our of other body of Copa, right?

If they have these cases on their roles in a properly investigating those issues.

>> You know, earlier this year Ccps a raised what you called significant and consequential objections to a proposed police policy allowing officers to continue making so-called pretextual traffic stops.

Things like expired tags are broken.

Tail lights for folks who aren't familiar with those stops.

What concerns you about that proposed policy?

>> So with the policy, I think.

We are at a place where we're developing out something that many people assumed was already in place.

And so we currently have a position on certain types of restrictions, which, again, with this process, we're now looking at putting traffic stops in to the consent decree.

So the largest pieces making sure that the commission maintains its authority of policymaking because once something is in the consent decree, we sort of lose out on that authority.

But we're pleased that the department has agreed.

I am T and others who are at the table to keep us with our current role so that we can make sure that we're elevating not only the commission's position, but also the positions of community voices.

Yeah, I mean, it's has there been any progress in the intervening months on that policy that that you can share with us?

>> Nothing be on the existing policy that is out there.

We're continuously gathering feedback.

So we do welcome everyone across the entire city to weigh in on that.

>> And we're also continuing our conversations right with the int.

Of course, we can't go into much detail about that, but it's still this push of getting it across the finish line into the consent decree.

But that's where we are now.

There is a draft policy available for people to review.

We welcome all insights and feedback are related to that.

We also have a feedback form and we encourage all Chicagoans to make sure that they're weighing in on their thoughts related to this particular policy.

Yeah, certainly something I know a lot of residents feel strongly about.

>> You know, you took over as president last month, although certainly been working with the commission for for quite some time.

What's the transition been like for you?

>> I think the transition has been a bit seamless, right?

I think Anthony and the former president, we worked well together.

I was his vice president for awhile.

We both started out on the interim together.

So it's been a bit seamless.

We recently also elected my vice president commissioner on Hill moving every whoa.

So we had our first meeting together.

This what last week.

So I think it's been pretty seamless of a transition.

I'm just excited too, implement some of my vision for the rest of my tenure that I have on this commission, which looks like connecting a lot of these different agencies and bodies who influence the overall public safety and accountability landscape because I believe a lot of what we're hearing, though.

We may not have authority in some of those areas.

We definitely can influence to ensure that we're meeting the needs of the