The Aurora Police Department and its chief are under the delusion that the embattled police department has restored its credibility after being forced to address its years-long “patterns and practices” of using excessive force against people of color.

It has not.

For more than three years, Aurora police have been working under a state-imposed consent decree requiring them to fix critical problems in the police department that have wrongly left a long list of Black people dead, injured or traumatized after confrontations with police.

APD has a very long way to go before it can expect the public, and especially the Black and brown communities, to bestow a level of trust they need to do their job.

It’s clear Aurora Police Chief Todd Chamberlain does not understand that, creating even more

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