. >> yang: we're joined from chicago by lori lightfoot, who headed the task force thathe issued that report. she's a former federal prosecutor and the president of the chicago police board, an independent oversight agency. >> yang: lori lightfoot, thanks so much for being with us. pulled not really> punches. it said at one point that the community's lack of trust in the chicago police department is justified. j and we've seen that lack of trust on full public display. was there anything in what you learned assembling this report, anything that surprised you? >> well, i think nothing specifically surprised us, but the depth of the anger and the frustration across a wide demographic of folks, particularly within the african american community, really resonated with us. so i won't say it surprises, but it absolutely struck at the core of much of our thinking and how we knew we needed to move forward with some of the bolder recommendations that made its way into the final report. >> yang: sorry, go ahead.a >> no, go ahead.. i was going to say we heard from a real cross-section of folks -

lori lightfoot chaired the panel. >> many people said that they believe that the police that they encounteredereporter: she said the department's own data validates a widely held belief the police have no regard for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of color. between 2008 and 2015, 74% of people here shot or killed by the cops were black. 76% of the time police used tasers, they used them on black people. >> they are killing our children. >> reporter: as protesters took to the streets over the shooting death of a black teenager by cops this week, the report was urging changes in police union contracts, which it said encourage a code of silence that protect bad officers. mayor rahm emanuel. >> so the question isn't do we have racism. we do. the question is: what are you going to do about it? >> reporter: the mayor picked the panel after the 2014 death of 17-year-old laquan mcdonald at the hands of a white policeman who shot him times and later claimed his life was in danger. among the report's 100 recommendation, a city-wide reconciliation process beginning with an acknowledgment by

lori lightfoot chaired the panel. >> many people said that they believe that the police they encountered were fundamentally racist. >> reporter: she said the department's own data validate the widely held belief the police have no regard for the san kt tee of life when it comes to people of color. between 200 # and 2015, 74% of people here shot or killed by the cops were black. 76% of the time police used tasers. they used them on black people. >> they are killing our children. >> reporter: as protesters took to the streets over the shooting death of a black teenager by cops this week, the report was urging changes in police union contracts, which it said encourage a code of silence that protects bad officers. mayor rahm emanuel. >> the question isn't does we have racism, we do. the question is what are you going to do about it? >> reporter: the mayor picked the panel after the 2014 death of 17-year-old laquan mcdonald at the hands of a white policeman who shot him 16 times and later claimed his life was in danger. among the reports, 100 recommendations, a city wide reconciliation proces