Mayor's office talking with state police about handling criminal probes of Chicago police shootings like Dexter Reed case

The jarring video of four Chicago cops firing 96 shots at Dexter Reed and killing him after he shot an officer during a traffic stop last month is putting the city’s complex machinery for investigating such shootings under a microscope once again. A state law, the 2016 Police and Community Relations Act, says an independent law enforcement agency — other than the one involved in the shooting — must investigate such cases. In Chicago, though, no independent law enforcement agencies investigate police-involved shootings for possible crimes. The Civilian Office of...