Bad Apples
The Mayor talking about his refusal to release the names of CPD officers and the number of compliants filed against them,
Mayor Richard Daley on Wednesday defended the Chicago Police Department and its troubled Special Operations Section after revelations that officers in the unit have been the subject of hundreds of citizen complaints.Frankly I fear corrupt cops more than I fear corrupt Press-Lords swindling shareholders.
"We have a very good police department," Daley declared. "You cannot say there are a few bad apples and write them off just like the media does.
"You have a few bad apples as well," he told reporters.
When my Senator blames Chicago's violence on gun stores and bad parenting, I sometimes wonder if maybe the real problem isn't just bad policing by some very bad apples.
Instead of having a Senator tell me to how to be a Dad, I'd rather have him tell the Mayor how to sort out the rotton ones.
xp Prairie State Blue
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The problem is that most of the complaints really are bogus.
When you have POs who make a lot of arrests, the bad guys identify them and then go to OPS with complaints. Half the time the complaints are tossed out for the simple reason that the PO was not on the job on the day of the alleged incident.
Beyond that, you get the complaints like "when I ran, he tackled me" and "the handcuffs were too tight and they chafed."
If the names are released, it will simply make these same guys targets for even more BS.
But there are also many legitimate complaints as we saw with
MEIDIZAZOWSKI and his drug dealing ring
or the SPECIAL OPERATIONS team robbing people and shaking them down
Most police officers are good, and even this OPS report shows it, out of 13,000 plus some 600 have many more than the others--there may be a justification as you explain above but some may deserve looking into. The Daley administration seems to want this covered up and is not transparent. This is odd after all these decades of problems and law suits.
Some of the OPS complaints may be bogus, maybe even most, but certainly not all, and the Special Prosecutors Report said they should of indicted Jon Burge and other officers in torture.
The brother of State Rep Eddie Acevedo made a guy a parapelegic and cost the city 28 million.
Some of the cops that HDO put were gang members.
Peter Dignan works at the Sheriff's office--how did that happen? He is accused of torture?
Det McWeeney works at the Cook County State's Attorneys office--how did that happen?
Det William Pederson is a convicted felon and works at the Public Defenders office. How did that happen?
These men were all accused of brutal torture and putting innocent men on death row.
If they are right than come out and say so. But most of them took the 5th Amendment.
Most of this happened on Daley's watch.
Maybe Daley should release the names of his criminal friends
and how many 11th ward precinct captains and job holders are part or at least were part of the 26th Street chinatown Mob street crew
Actually, Obama called for "better enforcement of existing gun laws, tighter background checks on gun buyers, and for making an expired assault weapon ban permanent." Yes, he did think parents need to take more responsibility, too. Nothing in his stance was in the least controversial. Like everything he says, he wants everyone to like him by being as bland as possible.
I find the parenthood lectures offensive. I think he oversteps with them. Especially when local gov fumbles with issues of police brutality.
You believe that single parent families are not an issue?
Sen. Obama is a leader. The teen pregnancy rate and the number of single parent households are way too high. When inner-city kids get good grades and work hard, they are accused of "acting white." They need positive role models, and sometimes a role model has to push and prod.
Of course, based on your comments, you favor gang violence and drug lords. You don't want Sen. Obama to lecture young males about acting right, and you want to put the clamps on good cops who make arrests.
Face it Bill. When it goes to the CPD, you are talking out your rear end. You have never been part of the process and don't have a clue what goes on in those investigations. Your opinions on the matter have no connection to any facts.
Take a look at Alderman O'Connor's comments yesterday. When you have some facts to tell the Alderman that he is mistaken, then blog. Until then, you sound ridiculous.
Maybe we could release the names of every attorney who has had a complaint filed against them. Or every doctor it doesnt matter if the complaint was true lets just ruin the reputation anyway. By the way it is much easier to fill a complant against a police ofc. than against an attorney or doctor.
We certainly should get the mortality morbidity stats on the docs and hospitals. It many States we do. Malpractice history too....
Brookins could win on this issue
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