The corruption in the Chicago PD is legen- wait for it... [View all]

[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.