Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams spent the weekend in the region unveiling a monument dedicated to five local IRA members killed in the Troubles Meanwhile, the MP for the area, SDLP deputy leader Seamus Mallon, said the British Government had told him it was revising its plan for implementing police reforms, and he believed the revised plan would take on board SDLP concerns.
The decision to award the RUC the George Cross - at the same time as the government was preparing to implement policing reform proposals which will change the name, symbols and structure of the force - was controversial.
"The failure to implement needed police reforms to be more sensitive and supportive to victims has made police stations places to be dreaded".
During their debate on KCRW radio's "Which Way, L.A.?" public affairs program, Delgadillo said Feuer, as a member of the council's Public Safety Committee, had failed to implement recommended police reforms, lost out on a federal grant for a system of monitoring problem officers and failed to heed an early warning about rogue officers.
Delgadillo blamed Feuer for failing, along with the rest of the City Council, to implement long-recommended police reforms.
Collins emphasized that over the last 18 months, Chicago has implemented a number of police reforms, including body cameras and new training oversight.
Delgadillo noted that he had the endorsement of former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who headed the commission that a decade ago produced comprehensive recommendations for police reforms, which the city has been slow to implement.
France's attempt to implement the agreement by presenting the Moroccan sultan with a program of economic and police "reforms" brought the indignant German emperor William II to Tangier in March 1905.
When police reforms are necessary (as will happen increasingly frequently as society itself changes so rapidly) they work best when proposed, owned and implemented by the profession itself, without political fear or favour.
Scotland's police reforms have been radical.
Successive governments have neglected police reforms.
