JUDGE SIDES WITH THE CITY GREENLIGHTING ITS PROTEST ROUTE FOR THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION.

AS WE DISCUSSED EARLIER, THAT SAME JUDGE SAYS STATE BILL INMATES NEED TO BE MOVED OUT BY THE END OF SEPTEMBER.

AND WE'VE GOT UPDATED NUMBERS ON WHAT POLICE MISCONDUCT COSTS, TAXPAYERS HERE WITH ALL THAT AND MORE IS OUR SPOTLIGHT POLITICS TEAM AMANDA, VICKI AND HEATHER SHARON.

HEY TEAMS.

SO HEATHER LATE YESTERDAY.

YOU WROTE ABOUT THIS, OBVIOUSLY, JUDGE ANDREA, WOULD FEDERAL JUDGE RULED THAT EXPECTED PROTESTERS ARE BEING GIVEN AMPLE OPPORTUNITY TO EXERCISE THEIR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS ON THE CITY'S EXISTING ROUTE NEAR THE UNITED CENTER.

WHAT EXACTLY WAS THIS DISPUTE PLAY ABOUT?

WELL, THIS IS A COALITION OF NEARLY 200 GROUPS WHO WANTS TO PROTEST ALL SORTS OF ISSUES NEAR THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION.

AND THEY WANTED ALMOST 2 AND A HALF MILE LONG PROTEST ROUTE THAT WOULD TAKE THEM DIRECTLY UP WASHINGTON BOULEVARD, WHICH WILL GO RIGHT BY THE UNITED CENTER SO THAT THEY CAN SEE DELEGATES IN DELEGATES CAN SEE THEM.

AND OH, YEAH, THE TV CAMERAS THAT WILL BE THERE WILL ALSO SEE THEM AS WELL.

BUT THE CITY AND THE SECRET SERVICE NO, THAT WOULD CREATE MASSIVE PROBLEM BECAUSE PART OF WASHINGTON BOULEVARD, AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE SCREEN, THERE IS GOING TO BE PART OF WHAT WE'RE CALLING THE HARD PERIMETER THAT THAT ORANGE AND THAT IS GOING TO BE CONCRETE, NOT FLEXIBLE BARRIERS.

AND THEY SAID, LOOK, IF WE ALLOW YOU TO MARCH UP WASHINGTON, IT'S A POSSIBILITY THAT THERE WOULD BE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE.

IT'S SOMETHING GETS OUT OF HAND COULD BE CRUSHED AGAINST THAT NON FLEXIBLE BARRIER, WHICH IS WHY YOU WANT TO SEE THEM MAKE THAT TURN AND HEAD AWAY FROM WASHINGTON BOULEVARD.

NOW, THE COALITION SAID THIS AFTERNOON THEY'RE GOING TO APPEAL THAT RULING.

BUT TIME IS RUNNING OUT.

THERE IS NOT A LOT OF TIME FOR THESE CHANGES TO BE MADE.

AND THE FEDERAL JUDGE SAID, LOOK, THE FIRST AMENDMENT DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU GET SAY EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANT TO STAY, WHERE YOU WANT TO SAY WE NEED TO MAKE REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS FOR SAFETY AND SECURITY.

AND SHE THE CITY YOU KNOW, I WILL ADD BECAUSE LIKE YOU SAID, PART OF THIS IS ABOUT GETTING ATTENTION OF THE MEDIA WORLDWIDE AND MAYBE THAT THEY DON'T HAVE THAT.

BUT THIS BACK AND FORTH IN COURT AND THE WHOLE QUESTION OF WHAT THE MAP IS GOING TO BE.

THEY BROUGHT A LOT OF ATTENTION ALREADY TO THEIR ISSUES, AT LEAST HERE IN CHICAGO.

SO ANYBODY WHO MATTERS IN THE CITY AND STATE CERTAINLY IS VERY WELL AWARE THAT ALONE HAS DRAWN THE ATTENTION THAT THEY ARE AND YOU KNOW WHAT?

WE KNOW THAT THEY'RE BRINGING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PROTESTERS ALONE.

THAT'S JUST THE PROTESTERS.

WE HAVEN'T SAID A THING ABOUT THE DELEGATES IN ALL OF THE OTHER PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING TO BE DESCENDING UPON THE CITY FOR THIS NEXT WEEK FOR VARIOUS ROLES THAT WE HAVEN'T EVEN THOUGHT CPD IS GOING TO BE UNDER SOME SCRUTINY NEXT WEEK AS WELL.

THEY WILL FACE A HUGE TEST.

THE BIGGEST ONE SENSE THE SUMMER OF 2020 WHEN THE RACIAL JUSTICE PROTESTS REALLY SWEPT THE CITY AND RESULTED IN UNREST IN SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF DAMAGE.

THE OUTCOME THE HANDLING OF THAT, WHICH HAS BEEN ROUNDLY CRITICIZED BY NOT JUST THE INSPECTOR GENERAL, BUT ALSO THE FEDERAL COURT MONITOR IN CHARGE OF CP DEA'S EFFORTS TO REFORM ITSELF.

SO THEY ARE UNDER ALL NEW POLICIES WHICH WILL FACE THEIR FIRST STRESS TEST IS STARTING ON SUNDAY AND THEY WILL HAVE TO OPERATE UNDER NEW PROTOCOLS FOR WHEN THEY CAN MAKE MASS ARRESTS AND WHEN THEY CAN ARREST PEOPLE ENGAGING IN FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTED ACTIVITY AND IT'S COMPLICATED, RIGHT?

BECAUSE HAVE A RIGHT TO SORT OF PROTEST AND HAVE YOUR SAY YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO CREATE A PUBLIC SAFETY THREAT.

THE ISSUE IS IS WHEN DOES THAT LINE GET CROSSED?

MUCH LIKE A LOT OF THINGS.

IT CAN BE IN THE EYE OF THE BUBBLE OKAY.

SO OBVIOUSLY THERE'S A GOOD BIT AT STAKE FOR GOVERNOR PRITZKER AS WELL.

AMANDA, WHAT'S WELL?

YEAH, I MEAN, HE PARDONED VERY HARD TO HAVE THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION HERE.

AND ALTHOUGH HE WAS NOT CHOSEN TO BE VICE PRESIDENT, KAMALA HARRIS IS RUNNING MATE ON HER BID FOR THE WHITE HOUSE.

IT IS STILL VERY OBVIOUS HE WANTS A POLITICAL FUTURE AHEAD OF THEM.

BE THAT RUN FOR ANOTHER TERM AS GOVERNOR, BE THAT MOVING TO WASHINGTON IN THE IS HIS FOCUS AT SOME POINT IN TIME.

SO CERTAINLY, YES, THIS IS HUGE FOR HIM.

HE IS ALSO REALLY TRIED HARD BE WHAT HE IS THE SORT OF MODELED AS A PRAGMATIC PROGRESSIVE AND TO STAND UP FOR RIGHTS OF PROTESTERS AND REALLY SAY THAT POLICE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT NEED TO CHANGE THEIR WAYS.

AND AT THE SAME TIME HE AVOIDED SOME OF THAT SCRUTINY.

FOR EXAMPLE, THAT FACE MAYOR LIGHTFOOT BECAUSE HE'S GOT THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO.

THIS, HOWEVER, IS IN THE EVENT THAT HE IS REALLY THE FACE SO THE SAME JUDGE WHO SIDED WITH THE CITY ON THAT PROTEST ROUTE IS THE SAME FEDERAL JUDGE WHO ALSO HAD ANOTHER IMPORTANT RULING FOR THE STATE ABOUT STATE CORRECTIONAL AND WHAT ARE THOSE DEETS THERE?

SO THIS IS IN WILL COUNTY AND WE HAVE KNOWN FOR SOME TIME THAT IT IS DECREPIT.

IT'S FALLING DOWN.

THAT'S WHY GOVERNOR PRITZKER SAID THAT HE DESERVED MONEY IN THIS YEAR'S STATE BUDGET AND ALSO PUT FORTH A PLAN TO REALLY TEAR DOWN DEMOLISH IT.

BUILDING NEW ONE IN THE SAME SITE.

THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THE UNION HAS BEEN FIGHTING.

THEY DON'T.

THEY'RE FEARFUL THAT THOSE JOBS ARE GOING TO GO AWAY.

AND YET THIS JUDGE HAS REALLY NOW SOLIDIFIED THAT THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN, SAYING THAT THE PRISONERS IN ALL, BUT THE HEALTH UNIT THERE NEED TO BE MOVED OUT BY THE END OF NEXT MONTH.

THAT DOES FIT WITH A TIMELINE THAT THE PRITZKER ADMINISTRATION HAD PREVIOUSLY LAID OUT FRONT.

YOU'VE DONE REPORTING ON SOME OF THE TERRIBLE CONDITIONS ARE.

YEAH, WE HAVE AND OUR COLLEAGUE WHERE PADDOCK AND I HAVE BEEN REPORTING ON SOME OF THESE ISSUES, OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, WE COVER THE CASE OVER THE SUMMER OF ONE OF THE NORTHWESTERN PRISON EDUCATION PROGRAM.

GRADUATES DYING WHILE INCARCERATED AND THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS THAT IT WAS RELATED TO THE HEAT.

WE KNOW HE SUFFERED FROM ASTHMA, BUT WE'RE JUST LOOKING AT PHOTOS A FEW MINUTES AGO.

YOU KNOW, AS YOU CONCRETE LITERALLY CRUMBLING AROUND THEM WEEKS.

THE STIFLING HEAT ON AND THERE BEING NO VENTILATION FANS NOT WORKING OR BEING PADLOCKED WINDOWS BEING NAILED SHUT.

SO A COMPLICATED SITUATION.

THERE OBVIOUSLY ARE A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THESE TRANSFERS.

WINDY MIGHT HAPPEN AND CERTAINLY FOR FAMILIES OF THE MEN WHO ARE CARS INCARCERATED THERE, WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO GO.

BUT SOMETHING WE'RE ALL GOING TO HAVE TO COME BACK TO YOU BECAUSE I WANT TO GET TO ANOTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT STORY THAT HEATHER HAS BEEN WORKING ON WITH OUR COLLEAGUES.

YOU'RE PROTECTED BECAUSE WE HAVE A GREAT TEAM DOING A DETAILED ANALYSIS ON WHAT POLICE MIXED MISCONDUCT IS COSTING TAXPAYERS.

WILL WE SPECIFICALLY LOOKED AT PAYOUTS THAT THEY HAVE COME OUT OF THE POCKET BUT OF CHICAGO TAXPAYERS WHEN THE SAME OFFICER HAS BEEN ACCUSED MISCONDUCT REPEATED TIMES WE FOUND OVER THE LAST 5 YEARS THAT 200 OFFICERS HAVE LED TO MULTIPLE PAYOUTS.

BE THAT A SETTLEMENT OR A JURY VERDICT COSTING TAXPAYERS NEARLY 165 MILLION DOLLARS.

NOW, THAT IS A LOT OF MONEY.

BUT YEAH, IS NEARLY 43% OF THE TOTAL.

NEARLY 368 MILLION DOLLAR COST OF POLICE MISCONDUCT SETTLEMENTS OVER THAT FIVE-YEAR PERIOD.

NOW SOMETHING THAT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN TRYING TO ADDRESS IS IT'S DOCUMENTED INABILITY TO HOLD OFFICERS ACCOUNTABLE FOR MISCONDUCT.

NOW THE CITY DOES NOT TRACK THESE LAWSUITS SO THEY CANNOT DISCIPLINE OFFICERS FOR THIS CONDUCT THAT HAS BEEN ADJUDICATED TO BE IMPROPER.

AND THAT IS A SIGNIFICANT PROBLEM AS THE REFORM EFFORTS ENTER NEARLY 5 AND A HALF YEARS LONG.

AND JARED AND I ARE GOING TO KEEP POUNDING ON THIS BECAUSE THIS IS A MASSIVE COST TO TAXPAYERS.

IF YOU REMEMBER THE BRING CHICAGO HOME REFERENDUM, WE TALK SO MUCH THAT WOULD HAVE RAISED 100 MILLION DOLLARS YEAR.

SO THAT GIVES YOU A SENSE OF JUST HOW A SIGNIFICANT PART OF THE CITY'S BUT THIS REALLY US BACK TO STATE POLITICS.

AMANDA, TRUE, THE GOVERNOR PRITZKER SIGNED WHAT 260 NEW BUT HIS THE AND THERE'S NEED TO WATCH WHEN HE SIGNS BILLS DURING ONE HAND.

AND THEN, I THINK COMES EXACT EXACTLY 260 BILLS.

ANYTHING STANDS I MEAN, ARE A LOT OF BILLS AMONG THEM AND SOME WILL BE REPORTED.

IT IS COMES BECAUSE MANY OF THEM DON'T TAKE EFFECT RIGHT AWAY.

BUT I'LL NAME A COUPLE OF THEM.

THERE'S ONE REQUIRES TRAINING FOR FOLKS LIKE NAIL TECHNICIANS.

I KNOW YOU'VE GOT 3 GOOD MEALS FRENTE.

SO WHEN YOU'RE WHEN YOU WHEN YOU GO TO THAT NEW ATTACK OR MAYBE IF YOU GET A WELL-TRAINED HAVE TO BE TRAINED AND ACTUALLY SKIP SPOTTING SKIN CANCER.

AND SO IT'S THINGS THAT PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE IN A PLACE TO KNOW TO BE IN A POSITION TO KNOW IS THAT SORT OF THINGS COULD TOTALLY DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

THERE'S ALSO GOING TO EARLIER EDUCATION AND ON AND ON FENTANYL.

AND THE DANGERS OF THAT'S MUST BE STARTING IN 6TH GRADE.

AND UNFORTUNATELY, THAT'S NECESSARY BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT IT IS THE CONTINUED MAJOR HEALTH HAZARD.

THERE'S GOING TO BE ALSO REQUIREMENTS THAT IF YOU STATE BUILDINGS OR PARKS, BUT IF THEY GET NEW LIGHTING IN REHAB, THAT IT HAS TO BE UP TO A CERTAIN CODE SO THAT IT'S NOT SO BRIGHT THAT IT'S DAMAGING POLLUTION, FOR BIRDS FOR WILDLIFE.

WHAT HAVE YOU?

AND THEN AT ANOTHER ONE THAT IS GOING TO BE, I THINK RELEVANT TO OUR RENTERS.

THERE'S SOMETHING THAT PREVENTS THEM.

IF THEY SAY, HEY, WAIT, YOU NEED TO FIX MY HEATER.

YOU I'VE GOT A PROBLEM WITH OUR HOUSING HERE SUNSITES SAFE THAT THEIR LANDLORD CANNOT RETALIATE AGAINST THEM BY SAYING YOU'RE OUT OF HERE.

ONE THING THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO GET TO IS THE STATE'S OFFICIAL MUSHROOM WHICH FEELS IMPORTANT.

THE COWS AYSHA JUG AND TIA WILL BE SURE TO GET