Chicago’s new police oversight chief has repeatedly wiped out or dramatically scaled back recommendations to fire officers following pushback from the city’s top cop, the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ have found.

The reversals by the city’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability follow acrimony and infighting that roiled the agency, culminating in the resignation of its chief administrator, Andrea Kersten, after a tenure marked by internal accusations of mismanagement and anti-police bias.

In March, Kersten was replaced on an interim basis by LaKenya White , who has worked for COPA since the agency was established in the wake of the police killing of Laquan McDonald in 2014.

White’s administration has since walked back the disciplinary recommendations for six cops — four it said should b

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