>> A PUSH TO CREATE A PERMANENT BOARD OF RESIDENTS TO OVERSEE THE CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT IS BEGINNING IN EARNEST TODAY.

APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN TO SERVE FOUR-YEAR TERMS ON THE COMMUNITY COMMISSION FOR PUBLIC SAFETY AND ACCOUNTABILITY.

THE COMMISSION IS PART OF A NEW ERA OF OVERSIGHT AND IS DESIGNED TO GIVE CHICAGOANS REAL AUTHORITY OVER THE BELEAGUERED LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

THAT BTW NEWS REPORTER HEATHER SURE OWN JOINS US NOW WITH MORE ON THE LATEST ON THIS POLICE REFORM HEATHER, WE KNOW THE THE INTERIM COMMISSION HELPED GOING SELECT POLICE SUPERINTENDENT SUPERINTENDENT LARRY SNELLING.

NOW THE PERMANENT COMMISSION IS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING TAKEN PLACE TO.

HOW WILL THESE COMMISSION MEMBERS BE SELECTED?

WILL YOU REMEMBER BACK IN FEBRUARY, CHICAGO VOTERS ELECTED NEARLY 5 DOZEN PEOPLE TO SERVE ON.

>> POLICE DISTRICT COUNCILS EACH OF CHICAGO'S 22 POLICE DISTRICTS.

ONE PERSON FROM EACH POLICE DISTRICT COUNCIL NOW SERVES ON A NOMINATING COMMITTEE AND THEIR JOB WILL BE TO SIFT THROUGH THE NOMINATIONS ARE THE APPLICATIONS THAT THEY'RE GOING TO GET AND PICK 14 PEOPLE TO CENTER MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON, WHO WILL THEN PICK 7 MUST BEACONS CONFIRMED BY THE CITY COUNCIL.

WE ALL REMEMBER HOW THIS LEGISLATION WAS ENACTED.

IT'S THE ULTIMATE SORT OF SAUSAGE MAKING, AS ARE MANY COMPROMISES TO PLEASE ALL CONSTITUENCIES TO COME TO THIS MAKEUP OF THE POLICE COMMISSION.

SO REMIND US WHAT POWERS THIS COMMISSION HAS.

WELL, IT WILL HAVE CITYWIDE OVER ALL POLICE POLICIES.

SO LIKE VEHICLE PURSUIT POLICY.

>> AND OTHER THINGS LIKE THE FOOT PURSUIT POLICY.

IT WILL ALSO HAVE THE ABILITY TO SORT OF URGE THE CITY COUNCIL TO TAKE ACTION ON ISSUES OF REFORM.

>> MUCH LIKE THE DEBATE THAT WE JUST SAW OVER WHETHER OFFICERS ACCUSED SERIOUS POLICE MISCONDUCT SHOULD HAVE TO GO TO THE POLICE BOARD FOR PUNISHMENT.

AND SINCE AUGUST OF 2022, AS WE MENTIONED, THE COMMUNITY COMMISSION HAS BEEN LED BY AN INTERIM BOARD.

REMIND US WHAT THEY ACCOMPLISHED, WHAT THEY WASTED NO TIME IN FLEXING THEIR AUTHORITY LED BY PRESIDENT ANTHONY DRIVER JUNIOR.

THEY BANNED POLICE GAME DATABASE AND THEY ALSO BANNED POLICE OFFICERS FROM ASSOCIATED WITH HATE GROUPS OR RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS.

GROUPS LIKE THE OATH KEEPERS AND THE PROUD BOYS.

I SPOKE WITH ANTHONY DRIVER BRIEFLY TODAY.

HE SAYS HE WILL APPLY TO SERVE AND THE PERMANENT COMMISSION.

SO PERHAPS THE PERMANENT COMMISSION WILL LOOK A LITTLE BIT LIKE THE INTERIM COMMISSION THROUGH ITS MOST PROMINENT MEMBER.

AND HAS BEEN VERY ACTIVE.

WE'VE HAD HIM ON THE SHOW MANY TIMES.

AND AS WE MENTIONED, HE WAS LET THAT PROCESS THAT CAME TO 3 FINALISTS THE MENTALLY ILL LARRY SNELLING AS A SUPERINTENDENT OR RIGHT.