Upon taking office McCarthy was already facing issues that dealt with police brutally. In regards to the shooting of an unarmed African American man captured on video, McCarthy acknowledge that the officer had previously shot two other people and that he shouldn’t of been on the street. McCarthy along with Rob Emanuel acknowledged the long history of excessive force and misconduct of the Chicago Police Department. Knowing that Van Dyke had over a dozen complaints against him including serious ones MCarthy failed to take him of the streets. Not only was McCarthy not taking action by implementing new rules in his department to fix the complaints of excessive force and misconduct, but he was covering up things as well. He defended an off-duty