Alderman: Police need to explain spying on protesters

Criticizing what he called the Chicago Police Department's "misplaced priorities," an alderman called Wednesday for a City Council hearing into police spying on protest groups.

Alderman Scott Waguespack of the 32nd Ward, a mayoral critic and leader of the council's Progressive Caucus, characterized the police monitoring of labor organizations, Occupy Chicago, Rainbow PUSH and other demonstrators as unnecessary and intrusive.

"It's a question of misplaced priorities by the Chicago Police Department," said Waguespack. "Instead of using everything we have to go after violent crime plaguing this city, we're going after protesters exercising their First Amendment rights."

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