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Chicago changes its community policing program

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Police Department is changing the way it runs its community policing program.

The move puts district commanders in charge of their own programs to fit the needs of their own communities.

At a Tuesday news conference, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said district commanders are in a much better position to determine what their own programs should look like than someone in the department's headquarters.

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