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Chicago – 30 December 2015
1. Various of City Hall
2. Cutaway of Mayor Rahm Emanuel walking to podium
3. SOUNDBITE (English), Rahm Emanuel, (D) Chicago mayor:
"We announce that any officer involved in shootings will be put on desk duty for 30 days so we can assess their fitness for duty, that's a change from three days. I also directed Superintendent Escalante and acting head of IPRA, Independent Police Review Authority, Sharon Fairley, to review the crisis response policies that are in place so that we can see what needs improvement and what needs to be changed. Today, we are taking additional steps to create more time and distance in these situations and other encounters to make environments safe and safer for all. We will improve communication between officers and individuals to make these encounters less confrontational and more conversational. And we will double the number of Tasers to 1,400 while also providing the officers the training to use them properly."
4. Cutaway of news conference
5. SOUNDBITE (English), Rahm Emanuel, (D) Chicago mayor:
"We want to assure our officers are not just operating in either first gear or fifth gear but to recognize the degrees in between so they can respond appropriately to each individual situation where force can be the last option not the first choice."
6. Cutaway of reporters
7. SOUNDBITE (English), John Escalante, Interim Chicago Police Superintendent:
"Our goal is to change the way officers think when they approach a critical incident by establishing time and distance to allow for more prudent thinking and physical space to promote a safer environment."
8. Cutaway of cameras at news conference
9. Close of sign above mayor's office
10. Cutaways of protesters outside mayor's office, where they watched the news conference live
11. SOUNDBITE (English) William "Dock" Walls, community activist:
"Simply putting Tasers in police cars is not the answer. Rahm was not specific as it regards what training they are going to implement."
12. Cutaway of protesters
13. SOUNDBITE (English) William "Dock" Walls, community activist:
"It makes us turn up the heat even more to know he is finally feeling pressure because this is a different Rahm."
14. Various of City Hall
STORYLINE:
Chicago's mayor on Wednesday announced changes in the city's police training and use of force, amid an uproar over shootings by police, including one in which a white officer shot a black teenager 16 times.
During a news conference, Rahm Emanuel said that Chicago's police must be better trained to "respond appropriately to each individual situation where force can be the last option not the first choice."
Emanuel said that every Chicago police patrol car will be equipped with a Taser following a series of high-profile shootings by officers, adding that the Police Department would double the number of Tasers available to officers to 1,400.
Interim Chicago Police Superintendent, John Escalante, said the aim of the reforms was "to change the way officers think when they approach a critical incident by establishing time and distance to allow for more prudent thinking and physical space to promote a safer environment."
Chicago's mayor and the police department have been heavily criticised since the city last month released a video footage of a white officer shooting a black teenager 16 times in 2014.
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