1972 SPECIAL REPORT: "RALPH METCALFE SPEAKS OUT ON CHICAGO POLICE BRUTALITY"

CHICAGO, May 13—A group of Chicago's black leaders has threatened to organize massive street demonstrations this summer if Police Superintendent James Conlisk Jr. and his top assistants are not removed from office.

The group, calling itself the Concerned Citizens for Police Reform, includes Representative Ralph H. Metcalfe of Chicago; Dick Gregory, the comedian and activist, and the Rev. C. T. Vivian, executive director of the Chicago chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Their demands, which were made yesterday, highlighted a week of bitter confrontation between Mayor Richard J. Daley's police hierarchy and the city's black community of more than 1.2 million, a third of the population.

Charging that Chicago's largely white police force has been harassing blacks with increasing frequency, the group demanded that local citizen control boards be established in each police district to review complaints of police brutality.

Earlier, Mr. Metcalfe a moderate who has been a quietly dependable black leader in Mayor Daley's Democratic organization, demanded sweeping changes in police tactics and supervision.

Mr. Metcalfe set a May 31 deadline for meeting his demands. At a news conference yesterday, the citizen group declared that Mr. Conlisk must be dismissed and the civilian review boards created by July 4 or they would lead the black community into the streets in protest.

The threat of militant disaffectiori among the blacks was particularly painful to Mr. Daley, whose Cook County Democratic machine depends on solid backing from the black wards.

Last week, the Mayor tried to stem the complaints by calling a conference of Chicago's civic leaders at City Hall. But after he declined to meet Mr. Metcalfe in a black neighborhood, the Representative and other black leaders refused to attend the Mayor's meeting.

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