Only days after Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III was questioned at a raucous Senate confirmation hearing about what his views on systemic police violence would be as US attorney general, the civil rights division of the Department of Justice issued its official report on the Chicago Police Department.

In official findings that should surprise no one that has lived in Chicago over the last several decades, the report was a scathing ninety-thousand-word indictment of the CPD. It first broadly found that the CPD “engages in a pattern or practice of unconstitutional use of force. ”

The report is worth quoting at length for what it claims about the department. It found the CPD