Chicago police officer tied to disgraced unit faces firing 16 years after scandal broke

[Algernon Moncrieff]

Chicago Tribune


More than 16 years after authorities say a Chicago police officer took part in one of the biggest scandals in department history, city officials have quietly moved to fire him.

Officer Thomas Sherry faces dismissal for alleged misdeeds he carried out as a member of the disgraced Special Operations Section, a specialized unit that was disbanded when some of its officers committed home invasions and robberies in the 2000s.

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Sherry was assigned to SOS in 2006 when Cook County prosecutors charged him and other officers with armed violence and aggravated kidnapping, among other charges, alleging that the officers had robbed drug dealers and law-abiding citizens of cash and property. Sherry was suspended without pay at the time.

As the scandal deepened, the department disbanded the SOS unit, some officers resigned and the police superintendent, Phil Cline, retired not long after.

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