The corruption in the Chicago PD is legen- wait for it...

[DetlefK]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/27/1388119/-The-shocking-truth-about-the-two-Chicago-Police-officers-posing-in-this-horrendous-photo

* officers posing with a black detainee as if he were a dead deer
* half a billion dollars in settlements paid (and that's just the last 10 years)
* a black site for keeping people unlawfully detained
* Chicago recently founded a reparations-fund for victims tortured by Chicago police


Meet Officer Jerome Finnegan from the Special Operations Section of the Chicago PD:
* unlawfull stops and arrests
* illegal searches
* arrested individuals based on false evidence
* breaking into homes without warrants
* stealing money from suspects
* kidnapping suspects
* "The most egregious theft listed in the article was when Finnigan and two partners stole $450,000. The group, according to the article, stopped a driver of a pickup truck and handcuffed and frisked him. Then, with guns drawn, they searched his house, finding a leather bag filled with bricks of cash. Finnigan split the money with the two officers."
* planing the assassination of another cop
* "Nine years before Finnigan ever spent a day in prison, he and other officers, according to a civil suit, broke into the home of a man who turned out to be a Chicago fire-fighter and tortured him in front of his wife and kids. When the fire-fighter reported it, look at what happened: The following day the plaintiff called the Chicago Police Department ("CPD&quot to report the incident. The next day, May 30, 2002, an investigator from the CPD came to plaintiff's home to discuss his complaint. The investigator told plaintiff that plaintiff was a drug dealer and that his complaint was "bogus."
A day or two later, the investigator returned to plaintiff's house and told him that if he pursued his complaint the police would cause him to lose his job. Plaintiff told the investigator that he would not pursue the case so long as the police did not arrest him, plant drugs on him, or have him fired. As the investigator left plaintiff's home, he told plaintiff, "just forget about this; otherwise kiss your job goodbye, and you're fucked.""

Finnegan and the three officers he supervised racked up 200 internal affairs complaints. Without anybody seeming to care about it.

"Finnigan, who pleaded guilty to federal charges in 2011, told Levin the group’s stealing from suspects was more widespread than what the public knows. He told Playboy he knows of 19 officers who stole cash and personal possessions during SOS searches."



Ah, Chicago. A legendary city.

[Enthusiast]

1. Jerome Finnegan sounds like a one man Quentin Tarantino movie.

But this shit is still going on right now.

I would like to know exactly what has Emanuel done to change this culture.

The guy looks like a crook to me. Just look at him!

[Unknown Beatle]

4. Are you kidding me?

Emanuel protects crooks. Crooks protect each other.

[Enthusiast]

5. Nothing has changed.

[Art_from_Ark]

2. Ho-ly crap

[MohRokTah]

3. Still more evidence that " good cops" are a myth. eom

[Oktober]

7. Math and logic be dammed right?

[MohRokTah]

8. MAth and logic add up to a lot of bad cops here.

A cop CANNOT be a "good cop" while looking the other way around the bad cops. A lot of what are termed "good cops" looked the other way with this guy. A REAL good cop would have arrested him on the spot whenever he committed these crimes.

I hear the "bad apples" bullshit all the time. One bad apple ruins the barrel.

There is no such thing as a "good cop". Any so-called "good cop" is off the force immediately.

[DetlefK]

10. I read a story about 3 months ago.

A police cadet (still in academy) uncovered something and got a "bad cop" booted from the PD.
He could have become a "good cop"...
Instead he left academy and decided to not become a cop for fear about his personal safety.

[Oktober]

11. Any other profession that deserves universal condemnation?

All judges? Lawyers? Plumbers? Forest Rangers? Day care providers?

I can find examples of all of them committing atrocious things against the public and some peers who knew about it and said nothing.

Is there anyone you don't hate or broad brush?

[MohRokTah]

12. Just all cops until they are capable of policing themselves.

They certainly don't deserve t police anybody else until the can.

[Oktober]

14. Intellectual honesty and consistency just isn't your thing then?

Feel free to respond to the actual question any time...

[AwakeAtLast]

6. My sister left Chicago six years ago

She doesn't miss it one bit. She lives in Austin, TX and loves it!

I'm sure Austin has its share of police issues, but she has noticed a big difference.

Edited to add: my parents have a friend who is trying to retire as early as possible from the Chicago PD. Now I know why.

[Taitertots]

9. Do you know why? It sounds like they know about the criminality and want to leave rather than...

do something about it.

[Baitball Blogger]

13. We're way behind in cleaning up our police departments.

We don't need cronies in departments that are supposed to protect everyone's well-being.