Program Overview
Jamie Kalven has played a significant role at every phase of the LaQaun McDonald shooting investigation. He was able to meet first with a critical eyewitness to the crime. He was first to obtain the autopsy report, which he says was almost as effective as having McDonald himself as a witness. And finally, Kalven played a major role in forcing the dash-cam video to be released to the public. As our guest today, he looks back at the Van Dyke verdict, which he considers fair, and sets the stage for the upcoming conspiracy trial of the officers who were at the scene with Van Dyke on the night of the shooting. Kalven takes us for a brief, live tour of their new Citizens’ Police Data-base Project web site, which includes registries for nearly a quarter-million accusations of police misconduct between the early 1960s and 2016. This program was produced by Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV).