Editorial: Body cameras aren’t enough to solve Evanston police issues, racial bias
As incident after incident has shown, the issues of racial bias and excessive force that pervade police departments across the country also affect Evanston police — most recently illustrated in the detainment of 60-year-old black Evanston man Gregory Hall. Hall was injured after Evanston police misidentified him as an armed robbery suspect as he was leaving the Evanston Public Library south branch.
As many Evanston community members continue to describe their distrust of local police, the Evanston Police Department has tried to ease these tensions. The Citizen Police Complaint Assessment Committee met for the first time in October to discuss reforming EPD’s complaint process and has been working on the matter since. And most recently, this has taken form in the utilization of body cameras.