Get rid of the Independent Police Review Authority, substantially rework the police union contract and address racism within the Chicago Police Department: Those are among the key recommendations in a powerful report released Wednesday afternoon by the Police Accountability Task Force.

The 190-page report on the state of the Chicago Police Department calls the system broken with systemic racism that needs reform. “A painful, but necessary reckoning is upon us,” the opening line of the executive summary reads.

Document: Read the full report released by the Police Accountability Task Force.

The report also provides a great deal of context about how the city and Police Department reached the breaking point.

“We arrived at this point in part because of racism. We arrived at this point because of a mentality in CPD that the ends justify the means. We arrived at this point because of a failure to make accountability a core value and imperative within CPD. We arrived at this point because of a significant underinvestment in human capital,” the report reads.

Among the statistics highlighted in the report are those detailing encounters between police and citizens. For example, of the 404 police-involved shootings between 2008 and 2015, an overwhelming majority of them – 74 percent – involved African-Americans. And of the 1,886 Taser discharges from 2012 to 2015, 76 percent of the time, it was an African-American who was Tased.