More stats on the Pattern at CPD
Chris Hack at the Daily Southtown writes,
Seizing on recent scandals rocking the Chicago Police Department, a group of lawyers and activists called Thursday for the creation of an independent civilian board to investigate complaints of police misconduct.Hack quotes U of C's Craig Futterman who,
...said an analysis of police records show that from 2002 to 2004, more than 10,000 complaints -- ranging from excessive force to bogus arrests to racial profiling -- were lodged against Chicago officers. Of those, only 124 were found to have merit by police officials -- and just 19 of those cases resulted in punishments of suspensions or harsher, according to Futterman's research.Futterman and the group sent the call for an independent to all 50 alderman. Seems like a more important issue than a big box ordinace or duck livers.
Pat Camden, a guy I admit to having grown fond of over the years watching on TV, is quoted responding to the study and the concept of a independent board over at Medill Reports,
The police department’s oversight body allows officers with “criminal tendencies to operate with impunity,” the study charges, because it does not adequately monitor or discipline police behavior. The study, expected to be released this summer, says that body, the Office of Professional Standards, operates at the department’s discretion rather than serving the public’s interest.Let's hope for a new superintendent from the outside with enough backing from those fifty alderman and plenty of others to clean this up. Somebody's gotta respond her Pat. Sorry
Patrick Camden, the department's deputy director of news affairs, declined to comment on the concept of an independent civilian review board or the study’s findings.
“We don't respond to studies,” Camden said.
xp Prairie State Blue
9 comments:
No Please don't post this.
Pat Hickey will come on and sing songs and insult people.
Dan L will come on and say how a bar fight should not justify a federal investigation and nobody was indicted in the Jon Burge cases and how Jon Burge is the best cop.
Than throw in some insults to Carol Marin who was working with the ghost of Oliver Cromwell and MI6 to destroy the IRA.
Or throw in what an objective, great and honest journalist Steve Neal was.
Maybe call the Reader writers John Conway (don't tell Hickey that Conway is an Irish Catholic), or Ben Joravsky commies, comrades, or part of the Mother Jones crowd (does Mother Jones still exist?).
Talk about how Area 2 did not have a radiator or how the police timelines don't match because, well, Bill Kunkle said so.
Those who don't like police torture or are critical of some possible patterns in the CPD are riding the Red Line, using rhetorical devises, stupid, against Mayor Daley, against gays, losers, playing April fool jokes, against the Machine, went to the University of Chicago, eat bries and/or wine and cheese.
So PLEASE don't post this because it is hard to take all the insults of anyone who doesn't like Jon Burge or is at all critical or might dare see a pattern with CPD.
The OPS of the CPD found that Manuel Acevedo and Jose Garcia were not wrong when they put Daniel Rigoloto in a parapelegic coma.
However, a Federal Jury found that they did and it cost the taxpayers 28 million dollars. The good legal work of Jon Loevy of Loevy and Loevy who is also on the Burge cases.
These officers went on to beat up many more people protected by brother State Rep Eddie Acevedo, who has been in fights with his fellow police more than once and he tried to sue the city, drunken violent power plays, throw in the more recent events at Bars in Chicago and Miami, and ultimate protection through Victor Reyes.
Some CPD get away with more than others. A sad fact of life. It goes way beyond bar fights to serious abuses of power, serious bodily injury and even death, parapelegics, innocent people in jail, guilty people out, drug dealing police, and involvement in gangs and politics--sounds extreme and like a movie--but a reality and mostly in the public record.
Maybe only a few complaints to OPS were found to have merit because only a few had merit.
"My handcuffs were too tight" doesn't have merit.
"When I ran, they chased me and tackled me" doesn't have merit.
If you have had any contact with OPS, you will discover that the vast majority of complaints are completely bogus and complete fabrications by criminals.
But looking at the complaints would require some research, and Baar just types away. No research here. He's a blogger.
Read the Medill link Skeeter...report is coming.
Read the Medill link Skeeter...report is coming.
Skeeter,
Read the Goldston OPS report.
Also, read the Federal trial transcripts of the case against politically connected HDO officers Manny Acevedo and Jose Garcia (who OPS said did nothing wrong but cost the taxpayers 28 million made a young man into a parapelegic by beating him and are still on the job)
Nice to see you all lining up with the bad guys against Chicago's hard working POs.
I know about these "complaints." I've actually read some. I've been present for statements. I've seen the impact of these things on average cops (and luckily, I've seen that the pathetic whining by the criminal-loving hard-core leftists hasn't stopped many of the POs from doing their jobs.).
Have any of you read the reports or talked to the cops?
As long as the bad guys know they can take good cops off the street with weak little complaints, they will do so. And because people like you choose to believe the drug dealers more than the POs, Chicago will still have problems with drug violence.
Nice work. You made my city a more dangerous place. You sure did help the drug dealers though.
By the way (and not that facts matter to you who love criminals and hate Chicago POs):
OPS is run by NON-sworn officers. As such, the people doing the investigating are NOT Chicago POs.
Not that it matters to you all. All you care about is making sure those drug dealers get back on the streets and that the good POs who make arrests are taken off the streets.
Legalize marijuana
treat drugs as a medical and not just criminal problem
I agree with Skeeter about 80%
But there is a problem with bad cops
How many I don't know
but enough and in some cases, areas where there is wrong doing
there are also a lot of bad guys
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