Video:Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul appears on “Chicago Tonight” via Zoom on June 24, 2021. (Produced by Evan Garcia)

Attorney General Kwame Raoul renewed his callThursdayfor Chicago officials to ban no-knock warrants and put tighter restrictions on officersto preventmistaken raids like the one that leftAnjanette Younghandcuffed and pleading for help in February 2019.

The department’s newly implemented search warrant policy still has some “shortcomings,”Raoul told WTTW News.

In addition to a ban on allowing officers to serve a search warrant without announcing theirpresence,more accountability is necessary to protect residents whose homes are damaged by officers and more protections are needed for children who might be present during the raid, Raoul said.

Chicago Police Department officials implemented new rulesfor search warrantsat the end of Mayafter several months of delay, caused in part by objections raised by Raoul.The attorney general saidLightfoot’s initial proposal was insufficientand would not prevent what happened to Young from happening again.

“It moved in the right direction, but there are still some shortcomings,”saidRaoul, who added that police who enter the wrong home should be required to leave immediately in an interview with “Chicago Tonight” Thursday.”We’ve seen progress.”

The Chicago Police Department is only allowed to serve no-knock warrantsincases in which “there is a reasonable suspicion that knocking and announcing would be dangerous to the life or safety of the officers serving the warrant or another person,” and requires the approval of a high-rankingbureau chief.

Lightfoothas rejected calls from Raoul and othersto ban no-knock warrants, saying that it wouldmake it impossible for officers toprotect Chicagoans from “dangerous people.”

But Raoul said a ban on no-knock warrants could be crafted in a way to allow officers to do their jobs — while protecting innocent bystanders and other law enforcement agents.

“Some people want to force it into a false dichotomy,” Raoul said.

The attorney general also echoed concerns from the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois that the new policy was developed without meaningful input from Black and Latino Chicagoans.

“A robust community engagement process is necessary,” Raoul said.

Raoul said he is also reviewingthe department’s new foot pursuit policy.

While the new policy took effectJune 11, police officials will consider feedback submitted until July 15.

Any policy should also avoid thatsame “false dichotomy” at play in the debateover the search warrant policy and allow foot pursuits in the”right way in the right circumstances,”Raoul said.

Changes to allow supervisors to terminate chasesdeemed unsafe as well as to keep officerstogether during pursuits are steps in the right direction, but more improvements are necessary, Raoul said.

As attorney general, Raoul is responsible for enforcing theconsentdecree that requiresthe Chicago Police Department to make significant changes to the way it operates after a2017 investigation by the Department of Justice found that officers routinely violated the civil rights of Black and LatinoChicagoans.

“At the end of the day, this is an opportunity for real reform,” said Raoul, adding that the result will serve as a “demonstration project”for cities throughout the country attempting to reform theirpolice departments.

The Department of Justice probefound that the lack of a foot-pursuit policy endangered officers and members of the public.

The “unfortunate reality” is that had city and police officials heeded that report and implemented a policy, thepolice shooting deaths of 13-year-oldAdam Toledoand 22-year-oldAnthonyAlvarezafter foot chasescould have been prevented, Raoul said.

The fact that the city and police department “moved at warp speed” to implement a foot pursuit policy after the high-profile shootings proves theconsentdecree is necessary to restore constitutional policing in Chicago, Raoul said.

“That’s not how it should happen,” Raoul said. “It should be a comprehensive and deliberate process.”

Raoul’s criticism of the police department’s search warrant policy as well as theslow pace of the city’s compliance with the consent decreehas made his relationship tensewith Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who dismissed his criticism in March of the fact that the city met only40% of the deadlines with a terse reminder that there is “a lot of work that still needs to be done at the state level.”

Raoul vowed not to allow that tension to prevent necessary collaboration.

“I’m optimistic, I’m hopeful,” said Raoul, who served on one of the working groups established by theLightfoot-led Police Accountability Task Force in 2016, which was charged with crafting reforms in the wake of the police murder of17-year-old Laquan McDonald.

Raoul said he was hopeful that the collaboration between his office and the mayor’s public safety staff on the search warrant policycould serve to “press a reset button” and usher in a new era of collaboration.

Raoul said he had hoped the mayor would propose reforms — like a foot pursuit policy — proactively, rather than retroactively, after a scandal or crisis, when she took office in May 2019.

“I started with high expectations,” Raoul said.

However, Raoul said Lightfoot inheriteda departmentresistant to the reforms required by the consent decree.

“It is a difficult job,” Raoul said. “I appreciate that challenge.”

The consent decree and reform effortaredesigned to support and help police officers do their jobs, Raoul said.

“Wemost certainlyarenot anti-police,” Raoul said.