Rahm Emanuel
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And I said, that's on me.
I have to fix this.
Now, you know this.
Chicago's not alone.
No city's alone, given what's happened on police departments across the country.
And I did go about fixing it.
But as the inspector general said, actually the problem is I followed the rules.
Because the last thing you want is a mayor involved in making a political decision when the FBI...
what's IPRA, which is the police department's independent body.
Everybody's investigating.
You don't want the mayor involving themselves.
Then you say you're politicizing a criminal investigation.
The FBI was involved.
attorneys was involved.
There were four entities investigating.
So if you don't involve yourself, you're part of covering up.
If you do involve, you politicize an investigation and endanger the prosecution.
In Chicago, the police officer actually was prosecuted and convicted.