DRK Star: no. I really wish you could spend a day with my brother to see the completely insane shit he deals with from savages.
book it, I'm only in MI. always wanted to do a ride a long.
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DRK Star: no. I really wish you could spend a day with my brother to see the completely insane shit he deals with from savages.
book it, I'm only in MI. always wanted to do a ride a long.
Let me ask him. He offered to take my son two years ago for half a day to drive him around "the hood" where he works (Nights, in the most violent part of the city). I need to make sure he can still do that. They used to have that ability. With all these DOJ demands and changes, he may not be able to.
Rahm swore in the new head of police yesterday.
When you take that oath, and he asks you to raise your right hand, its probably the easiest moment in your new career.
Chicago already off to a rough start....at least Rahm is getting all of his puppets in place for the impending doom...
(1) Johnson's wife probably was holding a Bible for him, but standing to his right, so he probably placed his closest hand (right) on the Bible, then raised his opposite hand.Quote:
Originally Posted by DRK Star
Rahm swore in the new head of police yesterday.
When you take that oath, and he asks you to raise your right hand, its probably the easiest moment in your new career.
Chicago already off to a rough start....at least Rahm is getting all of his puppets in place for the impending doom...
(2) Illinois's current governor, Rauner, a Republican, did the exact same thing when getting sworn in last year. And there is no legal requirement to raise a particular hand.
http://www.bnd.com/living/liv-column...e17734655.html
P.S. Did you vote for Rauner? Or not vote at all? Because you don't strike me as someone who would usually vote for a Democrat.
One day there will be a general rebellion against the longtime super-corrupt way of politics in Chicago.
I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet, but I think it's too ingrained there for even our social media connected world to get changed right now.
Like, I know that all politics have a degree of corruption, but Chicago is a whole different animal.
At some point the mainstream media will finally catch on and expose the whole thing. Amazingly, despite what is pretty much a century of mass corruption there, the media has given it surprisingly little coverage -- especially recently when social media could spread outrage about the situation much quicker than before.
Maybe it will take a major scandal, but we already had the Blagojevich thing, and Chicago escaped unscathed (likely because it was associated with Illinois, and not Chicago specifically). But make no mistake about it, Blagojevich learned his corrupt ways from a longtime exposure to Chicago politics.
I'm just wondering when the public will finally stand up, say "enough is enough", throw the corrupt bums out of office (or imprison them), and elect honest politicians there for once.
Nowhere is "you can't fight city hall" more true than Chicago.
I also wonder if the mainstream media doesn't focus on Chicago's corruption because it's been run by Democrats forever. I have to think if this was Republican-based corruption, this would have been a huge ongoing story a long time ago.
I'm actually surprised that Barack Obama was never influenced by the city's corruption during his time in politics there. I disagree with Obama politically and think he's a crappy leader, but I admit that he's mostly honest and isn't corrupt.
the crooked politicians are all liberal democrats, who are trying to protect their fiefdoms right now, and placing blame on others. Rahm is busting his ass tossing people under the bus, so all of the city's problems appear to be the fault of others. Its disgusting. They are all aligning for the day when Rahm is either in place, or voted out, and the new lesbian, black mayor will take over, try to remove CPD and put in her own type of security.
I vote Republican right now. I havent voted Dem in a while. This city is being destroyed by Dem thinking.
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Originally Posted by Dan Druff
Obama was better at hiding his skeletons than most. Blago was a mess. I dont think he still realizes that what he did was illegal.
Google Tony Rezko, to see who Obama had shielding him from trouble. Rezko did his dirty work.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-me...ko-connection/
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Originally Posted by Dan Druff
Wow, as smart as you pretend to be i can't believe you feel that way. Obama is no different than any other lying piece of shit politician. But if i said Obama is just as bad as George W, you would obviously disagree.
Obama gets this pass from the media, he does similar or worse things then George W and the media doesn't flinch. Obama has authorised more drone strikes then George W, yet is npr in outrage? Is Rachel Maddow's outraged?, Not even Fox news is hounding him on that. Not to mention the last report i read showed drone strikes are line 20% effective and most of the time they use a cell phone signal from an alleged terrorist and just blast the whole area around it.
I remember very well, after the remaining Bush presidency, thinking to myself, would the media keep the same standard of relentless critique of the president. The answer of course no.
In and around 2004, how many times would we see a tribute to a dead soldier on Nancy Grace? Or any other show?. A constant reminder that the war was going on and real people where and are paying the price. It's easy for us to sit at a pollo loco and get mad about dry chicken and go on about our daily life. Meanwhile there's some kid getting blown up by a roadside bomb because people who have never gotten into a street fight want to send other people to war.
No one should ever hold political office in high regard and anyone who wants to be president is a psychopath. Yet we revere psycopaths in this country for some reason, so we get what we deserve.
I mostly agree with what DRK says here about the Dem Party and corruption, but it wasn't just the *liberal* Dems. The Daley dynasty were conservative Dems, as well as Byrne. Washington was a liberal and that hurt the old school conservative Dems who had raped South Chicago of its share of funding.Quote:
Originally Posted by DRK Star
Also, the Republicans in Illinois are likely just as dirty as the Dems, as highlighted by a once GOP-darling governor Ryan getting convicted of corruption charges and spending some time as a guest of the federal government's white-color-crime country club facilities.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=16051850
Bottom line: Corruption in Illinois is a crime of opportunity, not party-specific.
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Originally Posted by DRK Star
I am a Republican, and this statement is horseshit. All, and by all I mean 90%+ are crooked. You have to be crooked to get elected in the current environment.
Take a step back from the Drudge report and realize that the United States of America has the most corrupt government in the world, and its 100% legal.
The Republicans are doing just as much overall harm to you as the Democratic poverty pimps.
The world is full of sharks, leaches, and the "rest of us". It is time for the "rest of us" to start thinking for ourselves, and take back control of the world we live in.
Jesus Christ....
apparently, there is a story coming out tonight that there was ANOTHER teenager (16?) that was shot by police back in 2014, 16 times.
lets see how this plays out. I will report anything I hear.
White Privilege Conference Opens By Raising Money For Mother Of Guy Who Shot Cop
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/15/wh...#ixzz45zUPY7Mh
Oye....the stupity
“He paid for his mistakes. He did a 360-degree turn,” Matthews said,
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/15/wh...#ixzz45zua98Od
Chicago Mugshot of the day
He's the Hero Chicago deserves, but not the one it needs right now
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...ty-that-bleeds
This is 3 years old, but gives you an idea as to the costs the taxpayers incur here in Chicago, every time some is shot/murdered.
Chicago Killings Cost $2.5 Billion as Murders Top N.Y.’s
When Gregory Glinsey was fatally shot while buying ice for his mother’s 80th birthday party, the emotional toll on his family was incalculable. The immediate price to the public was $800 for his autopsy.
His slaying and 505 others in Chicago last year scarred it with a rising homicide rate as most cities saw declines. Another 2,000 non-fatal shootings in Chicago added costs measured in shuttered businesses, lost wages, disability checks and depopulation. In Glinsey’s case, the price of his random killing mounted before his mother knew her 54-year-old son wouldn’t return from a convenience store in the South Shore neighborhood.
More than three dozen police swarmed the scene of the Feb. 19, 2012, shooting, which also killed a 19-year-old and injured five other teenagers. After $1,000 ambulance rides to hospitals for each survivor, the combined trauma-care bill would, on average, top $250,000. Gunfire outside Budget Food & Liquors cost its owner a tenant and $1,000 in monthly rent: A tax preparer next door bolted after a bullet from another shooting ripped past a secretary’s head.
“Violence hurts the economy, and sooner or later it permeates everything,” said Teyonda Wertz, head of South Shore’s chamber of commerce. “Unless we change our crime situation, it’ll kill us.”
All told, shootings cost Chicago $2.5 billion a year, or about $2,500 per household, according to Jens Ludwig, director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab. Many of those costs are intangibles, Ludwig said, like keeping people from going outside or letting their children walk to school. Reducing even a fraction of the carnage, though, would free up more money than the city expects to save each year from the closing of 49 elementary schools approved yesterday by the school board.
Chicago Bleeding
Nationwide, the crime lab estimates, gun violence costs $100 billion, roughly the salaries of 2 million police officers.
Chicago, the third-largest U.S. city, last year recorded a homicide rate more than three times New York City’s and double that of Los Angeles. It also had about 900 more non-fatal shootings than New York despite having a third as many residents. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is co-founder of Bloomberg LP, parent company of Bloomberg News.
In a nation beset by handgun deaths and injuries, Chicago is a big city that bleeds more than almost any other.
The bloodshed last year prompted Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a Democrat who is President Barack Obama’s former chief of staff, to reverse a money-saving decision that let police ranks drop to the lowest in at least five years.
Burning Overtime
Citywide through May 12, homicides were down 39 percent and shootings 28 percent. To help accomplish that, though, the police in just three months burned through almost two-thirds of the entire year’s overtime-pay budget, which the department said is $38 million.
“It’s a shell game,” said Pat Camden, a spokesman for Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police. “We are shifting things back and forth trying to appease the aldermen and the public.”
In South Shore, the price of such violence can be gauged in its grim decline, from a vibrant redoubt among neighborhoods that have long been synonymous with urban mayhem to one on the verge of joining their ranks.
The community of 50,000 people on the south side of the city of 2.7 million is the childhood home of first lady Michelle Obama, who grew up on the second floor of a bungalow on Euclid Avenue. There she befriended the children of the city’s black elite, including civil rights leader Jesse Jackson Sr. It’s where software pioneer Larry Ellison, co-founder and chief executive of Oracle Corp., was raised and where health-care consultant Dr. Eric Whitaker, one of the Obamas’ closest friends, lives.
Population Drain
The neighborhood is racially homogenous, 95 percent black after most white residents fled integration decades ago. Yet South Shore is economically divided, with homes selling for anywhere from $10,000 to more than $1 million.
Amid the violence, it’s losing its human and commercial lifeblood. While Chicago’s population fell 6.9 percent from 2000 to 2010, the neighborhood’s sank 19.2 percent, according to the city and Census Bureau.
The number of businesses dropped by a third from 2005 through 2012 in the postal zone that covers the neighborhood, according to Chicago licensing data compiled by Bloomberg. During that period, the citywide total grew by 1.3 percent. The merchants who remain find it tougher to compete.
‘Real Costs’
“In higher-crime neighborhoods it’s more costly to run a business, both in terms of attracting customers and workers,” said Robert Greenbaum, a professor at Ohio State University who has studied the subject. The loss of nighttime business hours robs the U.S. gross national product of as much as $7.4 billion a year, according to research by Ludwig and Philip Cook, authors of “Gun Violence: The Real Costs.”
Some studies suggest it contributes directly to people leaving cities. University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt, co-author of the book “Freakonomics,” found that each homicide leads to the departure of 70 people.
South Shore is providing ample motivation to flee. Last year, 19 homicides occurred within its three square miles. Residents dubbed one particularly violent stretch Terror Town, where Glinsey was hit in the chest after a burst of gunfire from a car that pulled in front of the convenience store. The 19-year-old who was killed was shot in the back while running inside.
On April 30, hours before police officials announced another drop in homicides, the temperature hit 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius) for the first time in almost eight months. South Shore erupted: Three people were shot and one killed in six hours.
Society’s Tab
“There is no safe time of day to go out anymore,” said Arthur Lyles, an assistant pastor of Christ Bible Church of Chicago, which sits in the middle of Terror Town. Lyles has a grandson and nephew wounded by gunfire. “You can be shot at 10 in the morning, 1 in the afternoon or 9 at night.''
The tab for taxpayers and society starts running as soon as a bullet strikes someone, from detectives on the street and trauma surgeons at the city’s public hospital to months of rehab for victims and years of court proceedings for the accused.
The first to arrive at the Budget Food & Liquors crime scene that February evening was the “paper car,” police slang for the unit charged with completing a preliminary report.
Detectives and evidence technicians soon converged on the corner of 79th Street and Essex Avenue. Lower-priority calls were pushed aside. Suspicion of gang involvement brought more, including patrolmen to discourage retaliation. With Glinsey dead on the sidewalk, a homicide team consisting of a sergeant and a handful of investigators were dispatched, said Joseph Salemme, commander of detectives for the South Side.
Body Bags
The initial response cost as much as $6,000 in salary alone for the roughly five hours that officers spent gathering evidence and interviewing witnesses.
Then there were the incidentals: The medical examiner’s office paid $4.58 for the body bag, including the plastic sheets and tape used to seal Glinsey’s remains for the trip to the morgue.
No one’s been charged in the slaying of the unemployed former steelworker who lived with his mother. If suspects are arrested, police must charge or release them within 48 hours, so officers often put in night and weekend duty to meet the deadline.
“Every murder incurs overtime,” Salemme said, with extreme cases consuming 1,000 to 1,500 hours of “premium pay.”
It can take years to develop tips from reluctant witnesses, and that doesn’t come cheap -- detective pay ranges from $63,642 to $96,444.
Fewer Police
Buffeted by the worst recession since the Great Depression, the city has tried to make its force leaner. Emanuel’s predecessor, Mayor Richard M. Daley, started the trend in 2008 by not filling vacant police positions.
Emanuel continued the reductions after taking office in May 2011. Last year’s homicide spike came after the number of rank-and-file officers dropped to 12,236 in 2011 from 13,749 in 2006, according to pension-fund records.
There weren’t enough cadets to replace those retiring, and Emanuel in October pushed for hiring more than 450 cops as part of his $8.3 billion spending plan for 2013. Last week, the police academy graduated 105, its largest class since 2005.
“I’ve been saying for two years we have the number of officers we need,” Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said in a statement. “Today Chicago has more officers per capita than any of the five major police departments in the country.”
He attributed this year’s gains to giving district commanders more authority and accountability as well as “a return to community policing, a comprehensive gang violence reduction initiative, a more holistic approach to narcotics enforcement.”
Public Disapproval
The reduction in violence so far this year hasn’t yet registered with the public. A Chicago Tribune/WGN-TV poll taken April 30 to May 6 showed the proportion of city voters who disapprove of Emanuel’s handling of crime had risen to 47 percent, up from 34 percent a year earlier.
On top of the cost of policing comes the cost of care. The teenagers injured alongside Glinsey were taken to three private South Side hospitals. The workhorse for treating the city’s gunshot victims, though, is Cook County hospital, the hulking public facility on the West Side that inspired the TV series “ER.”
Trauma Bills
On a recent Saturday night, five of eight occupied intensive-care beds in the unit had shooting victims. One man had 10 bullet holes, including one through his jaw that would require a feeding tube for at least six weeks and nursing-home care. Another had a spinal-cord wound that would leave him a quadriplegic and a “significant burden on the taxpayer,” said Dr. Andrew Dennis, 43, a trauma surgeon.
This wasn’t an extraordinary night. Last year, the hospital treated 846 shooting victims at a total cost of about $44 million, with trauma care averaging $52,000 per case, according to the county. Seventy percent of the victims treated at what’s formally called John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital have no insurance, so their bills are part of the annual $500 million taxpayer tab for the county health system.
During the heat of the summer, Dennis said, he’s seen as many as 20 gunshot victims in one 24-hour shift. Several times a month, he’ll see repeat customers. Often, doctors leave the bullets inside because taking them out surgically is more risky.
“Most people who leave, leave with their bullets in them forever,” said Dennis, who exhibits a police officer’s toughness. In fact, he’s a medical director for the Cook County Sheriff’s office and carries a gun when not at the hospital.
Brain Damage
For the 98 percent of gunshot victims who depart alive, their next stop is often the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.
Gunshot wounds represent about one in 20 of the institute’s patients, said Dr. Elliot Roth, its medical director. More of its gunshot victims have multiple wounds than those from a decade ago, the result of increasing use of semi-automatic weapons. That can mean exponentially greater neurological damage that is more expensive to treat, Roth said.
Care can cost $100,000 or more -- covered by taxpayers if the patient is indigent -- with the average about $35,000 and inpatient stays lasting about six weeks. Once a victim goes home, making it wheelchair accessible often costs tens of thousands of dollars.
As victims recover, the cost of prosecuting attackers mounts. Police earn overtime for court appearances outside normal shifts, much of it wasted because it’s not uncommon for murder trials to be delayed as many as 20 times. Six to eight officers and detectives may testify.
Squandered Hopes
Other costs are less tangible: lost wages and squandered hopes.
Kelley Boyd, who has lived in South Shore for the past decade, became a harbinger for the neighborhood when he was shot at age 16 while walking down a street several miles away. Costs associated with his wounds have been accumulating for two decades.
He spends days in a wheelchair in his three-room apartment, watching TV and collecting his $700 monthly disability check and $100 in food stamps.
He points with an index finger to a spot left of his nose where a bullet entered, leaving him partially paralyzed on his right side. He struggles for vocal clarity, occasionally snapping the fingers of his left hand in search of words.
Lost Wages
As a teenager, Boyd planned to become an accountant. That’s roughly $600,000 in lost wages for South Shore, assuming a starting salary for a tax preparer of about $40,000.
“I’m not through,” he says, showing a flash of anger. “I’m too smart to be doing this. It’s not what I want for myself.”
Beyond Boyd’s broken venetian blinds, hundreds of people were attacked on South Shore’s streets in recent years. The 420 shootings in 2011 and 2012 in the police district that includes most of the neighborhood represented a two-year increase of 20 percent, four times as large as the city as a whole, police data show. So far this year, shootings in the district are down 55 percent from the same period in 2012 and 15 percent from 2011.
The socioeconomic opposite of Terror Town, where Glinsey was killed, is a 12-block section of South Shore called Jackson Park Highlands. It’s distinctive for its architecture, affluence and isolation.
Dead Bodies
The Highlands’ well-educated professionals represent a vital component of the neighborhood’s future that the violence threatens to drive away.
“If you’re making $100,000 or $200,000, you’re not going to want to continue to step over bodies,” said Henry English, president and chief executive officer of the Black United Fund of Illinois, a South Shore-based community development group, who has seen gunshot victims lying dead outside his office and on his block at home.
The commercial heart of the neighborhood sits less than three blocks from the Highlands home of James Norris, yet he said he feels he has to “be on guard” when he’s on 71st Street. “I would usually prefer to avoid the area,” he said.
Violence has prompted the South Shore chamber of commerce to discourage businesses from staying open at night and to seek fines -- and even shutter -- stores that tolerate loitering. Merchants struggle with people selling individual cigarettes called “loosies” and illegal drugs.
Fleeing Violence
Two months after Glinsey was fatally shot outside Budget Food & Liquors, the tax preparer next door fled. The Jackson Hewitt branch moved eight blocks north to 71st Street, near a shopping center anchored by franchise drug, electronics, grocery and sandwich outlets.
That wasn’t far enough. On the evening of April 30, three men were shot near the stores. The next morning, a 27-year-old man was killed about three blocks away.
Wertz, the executive director of the South Shore Chamber Inc., has a different challenge than her peers in most suburbs or more stable city neighborhoods.
The South Shore commercial strips she touts are defined mostly by beauty salons, wig shops, liquor stores, check cashing operations and tax preparation outlets. Wertz’s wish list: auto parts, shoes, a pancake house, a Marshalls and a T.J. Maxx.
Crime Consultant
Wertz, whose organization employs its own crime consultant, is pushing the city to open a police substation on 71st Street, a year and a half after Emanuel closed three district stations to help plug a $636 million deficit left by Daley.
“We need to get rid of the impression that there’s always going to be a gun fight,” Wertz said.
Death, it turns out, is death on business.
Sandy Neal, a fashion designer, would like to open a vintage clothing store in his native South Shore.
“I don’t see a lot of foot traffic,” said Neal, 48. “You don’t see people going out to stroll and stop to have coffee.”
Or get supplies for their mother’s birthday party. More than a year after her son’s killing, Bertha Glinsey can’t quite fathom just how far her neighborhood has fallen.
“To think that you could go to the store and not come back alive,” she said, grimacing as she sat at her dining room table. “You can’t do what normal people do.”
Just down Saginaw Street from the two-story brick home where she and her husband reared seven children, a welcome sign still boasts: “A Great Place to Raise a Family.”
I think the N is covered up on the end.Quote:
Originally Posted by DRK StarChicago Mugshot of the day
He's the Hero Chicago deserves, but not the one it needs right now
Year to Date
Shot & Killed: 153
Shot & Wounded: 847
Total Shot: 1000
Total Homicides: 173
HAPPY 4:20 Chicago!!
his family just announced the lawsuit. The police officers are starting to sue the estates for emotional distress so hopefully the officer sues right back. If the City pays a dime to this family it will be a tipping point. As brave as the officer was for chasing the guy, really? Stay fetal for a reason. Darwin will take care of these guys, no need for a lawsuit and risk your career for scum like this.Quote:
Originally Posted by big dickThat cop did us all a favor.Nice work officerQuote:
Originally Posted by DRK Starhttp://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...412-story.html
"He's a typical Chicago teen male, no different than any other young man living in this city, facing some of the same challenges and trials and tribulations," Winters said in the vestibule of the two-flat.
Winters said she found reports of her nephew carrying a gun hard to believe and described his past brushes with the law as "small, minor incidents."
On Loury's Facebook page, friends called him by his nickname, "Polo." Photos of what appeared to be drugs and guns were mixed with occasional inspirational posts about bettering himself.
He frequently posted photos of his outfit of the day as well as new shoes, watches and distressed painted jeans. He also often referred to the Reese Money Gang or RMG, letters tattooed on his neck.
Some videos posted late last month showed Loury hanging out with friends, smoking and counting what appeared to be stacks of money. Loury also talked about having bigger plans for himself, writing, "Thinkin of A Master Plan."
the little angel who was shot, who mama said didnt have a gun.....well, here are some Facebook photos of his
but.....you know.....FUCK THE POLICE!!
that kid might be the biggest peice of shit I have ever seen. Im grateful to the cop who killed his little n-word ass.
I dont have all the details about that kid in the photos above, yet, but he was fleeing police, with an illegal gun on him, tried to climb a fence, and the dumbass was wearing baggy jeans, that got caught on the top of the fence. He very possibly raised his hand with a gun in it, toward police, as he was shot in the chest while fleeing (must have been facing the cop somehow).
The Chicago Tribune HAS YET to show any photos of this kid except the one of him looking handsome in his plaid shirt. They wont announce the race of the cop yet either (likely black).
The kids mother.....oh boy.......the kid's Facebook page was full of his gang photos, throwing up signs and showing off all kinds of guns....but the MOTHER....she had tons of photos where it looked like she went out partying several nights every week. How is she doing that, with what little income she should have had (oh...thats right....she had 6 kids....no word yet on any of the fathers in any article, as none have come forward) but she had enough coin to ball it up multiple times a week.
If the city doesnt fight this, I hope people revolt. They have no case. They are trying to say that police are racists because Rahm's "Task Force" (total horseshit) said that CPD suffered from widespread racism. (no proof given anywhere).
I have no clue why a single cop is even getting out of his car at this point. They all need to just sit in their cars and wait for Armageddon.
http://city-journal.org/html/back-bedlam-14403.html
Great article
https://soundcloud.com/chicagos-morn...arke-interview
Chicago radio station interviews Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke
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Originally Posted by DRK Star
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HNWhVXcjV8
that woman writes some great articles
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth...ter-1455235686
The mama was posting about all of the trips she goes on, cabo, disney, etc. and all the party buses she goes out on every week. As one copper pointed out, with a couple of kids on a copper salary there are no vacations. Yet that guy (and all of us taxpayers) bust our asses while mama goes out partaaaaying and vacationing all year long. now these mutts think they hit the ghetto lottery with a lawsuit. the party bus must be in full force this week.Quote:
Originally Posted by DRK Star
2011
Some Black guy and a black woman involved. Guy robs a McDonalds, and takes a white woman hostage at the register. Tells server to give him money or he will shoot the woman. Guy then jumps into a getaway car driven by black woman. Police called. They try to get the car pulled over at a gas station, but the black woman driver decides to take off and almost runs over a cop. Cop ends up shooting at her and hits her twice. She keeps driving away.
She finally pulls over, and a cop approaches her with gun drawn. She gets out of the car, and he grabs here and takes her down. She starts resisting so they taze her.
CPD was cleared 5 years ago of any wrongdoing. It was a standard, trained take-down maneuver.
Fast forward to today....
The new head of police, whom Rahm hand picked over 3 other people, has been telling people that he essentially wont be Rahm's puppet. That was all bullshit.
He just announced that the two officers involved with taking this woman down to the ground, are being investigated. The head of police called the video "Concerning" <jesus fucking christ....this guy already lost all of the backing of the cops. He is a worthless puppet of Rahms>
So, she failed to follow commands of the police, she fled, with an armed felon who just robbed the McDonalds, tried to run over/kill a cop, and they are investigating the cop?!!!
The mother of the woman "wants justice".
How about teaching your fucking daughter not to break the law?
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/cpd...ed-and-cuffed/
Here is a comment that was made by former CPD officer:
"This criminal attempted to kill police officers with a car for which she was justifiably shot. That she pulled over almost immediately has zero bearing on the officer's actions. She failed to follow verbal direction and was taken down with a move taught to each and every police officer currently on the job - the "emergency takedown." Any and every piece of clothing or limb or even hair is fair game, especially in a life-or-death situation on the street, to enforce compliance with lawful verbal direction given to an offender.
You can see her kicking and failing to submit to handcuffing, which means she was justifiably tasered. It's right there in the Use of Force model and in keeping with the training and directives taught to every officer currently on the job. She pled guilty to 12 years and her accomplice got 25 years.
The video is "concerning"? No, your willingness to reopen a five-year-old case already adjudicated as "Justified" to satisfy the political whims of a mayor who suppressed a video for his own political gain is concerning. There is nothing "concerning" in the video and quite frankly, it ought to be used as a training aid to show the immense restraint of the officers involved. But you're willing to put them in the Rahm-trick-bag in order to remove media attention from the promotion of your girlfriend and her buddies at IAD?"
this head of CPD likely assisted his GF in passing a promotion exam, by getting her access to the answers. This town is a fucking joke
the woman who was robbed chimed in
http://abc7chicago.com/news/victim-s...spect/1306462/
How the hell do you expect any police to want to do ANYTHING when you are going to come after them more than you do the actual criminals?
http://www.cwbchicago.com/2016/04/ma...senior-on.html
Old black man who mugged an old lady on Chicago North Side, has technically been given 91 years of prison sentences since 1981. They keep letting him out on early parole.
...this fucking city...
Another officer shot, and another was cut. Both should make it. In surgery.
From this afternoon
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https://twitter.com/BillyBoiMoney/st...368192?lang=en
at least his clip game was on fleek
jesus christ drk this thread is depressing as fuck.
by midnight tonight, I believe that Chicago, in just the last week, will have had around 9/10 homicides and over 100 people shot, including a cop.
Im pretty sure 90% of countries dont have that in a year.
Ever wonder why Chicago's police department now has the ACLU all up its ass? Perhaps because of too many incidents like this from not so long ago.
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/...ry_indictments
There is more discussion of this incident, as well as the broader matter of how the War on Drugs encourages awful behaviour by police like this specific case, in the article.Quote:
Video Killed the Drug Conviction: Chicago Narcs Busted Lying Through Their Teeth
It was just another marijuana bust by Chicago's crack dope squad and should have resulted in an easy conviction, but thanks to a forgotten camera, things didn't exactly work out the way the cops planned. Now, the pot dealer is free, he has a bunch of cash in pocket, and it's the cops who are facing justice.
It went down on June 6, 2013, when three Chicago Police narcotics officer and a pair of suburban Glenview police officers pulled over Joseph Sperling on the pretext that he had failed to properly use his turn signal, then claimed Sperling told them there were drugs in his vehicle. The cops said they found marijuana in plain view and arrested Sperling on marijuana possession and distribution charges. Business as usual, so far.
But when it came time to go to court the following March, things went south for the cops. Prosecutors had been questioning Chicago PD narcotics officer William Pruente, who said in sworn testimony that when police pulled over Sperling they immediately smelled marijuana and ordered him to exit the vehicle and stand at the rear of the car.
Then, defense attorney Steven Goldman asked the veteran narc if Sperling was handcuffed after he got out of the car.
"No, he was not handcuffed," Pruente replied. "He was not under arrest at that time."
Chicago narcotic officers Sergeant James Padar and Vince Morgan and Glenview Police officers James Horn and Sergeant Theresa Urbanowski backed up Pruente's story.
Then, as Urbanowski was testifying, defense attorney Goldman dropped a bombshell. He interrupted the testimony to inform Judge Catherine Haberkorn that he needed to offer a videotape into evidence.
In a moment of courtroom drama like something out of "Law and Order," Goldman revealed that the video came from Urbanowski's police cruiser and that it flatly contradicted the sworn testimony of the police officers. The police had been lying to the court and to the judge and the video would prove it, Goldman said.
As Goldman patiently took Urbanowski back over the events she'd testified about, he played the recording and asked her to describe the difference between her original testimony and what was happening on the tape.
The footage contradicted the testimony of the police officers. Pruente had testified that Sperling had not been arrested or handcuffed until the cops had found the dope in plain view, but the video showed Pruente walking up to Sperling's car, reaching in the open window, unlocking the door, pulling Sperling out, handcuffing him, and placing him in the back seat of a patrol car. Only then did the officers move to search the car.
The video clearly showed the officers spending minutes thoroughly searching Sperling's car before finding weed and a small amount of psychedelic mushrooms in a black duffel bag.
As defense attorney Goldman noted during questioning, if the drugs had really been in plain view on the front seat of the vehicle, the officers had no need or reason to search it because they already had the drugs.
The brazen distance between the officers' testimony and what the video revealed infuriated Judge Haberkorn, who immediately granted Goldman's motion to suppress the evidence because the video showed police had neither probable cause to arrest Sperling nor a warrant to search his vehicle.
"This is very outrageous conduct," Haberkorn said from the bench. "All the officers lied on the stand today. All their testimony is a lie. There is strong evidence it was a conspiracy to lie in this case, for everyone to come up with the same lie."
Haberkorn then dismissed the criminal charges against Sperling.
"If this could happen to me, it could happen to anyone," said Sperling, then 23, during a press conference with reporters after the release of his videotaped arrest. "I just happen to be one of the lucky few that had a video that proved the officers were wrong."
I hate situations like this.
1. The cops did something shady in order to get an arrest. Punish them severely.
2. The guy they busted was actually guilty, and now gets to go free and sue.
You don't seem to understand the notion of civil rights. Because I am sure that a huge proportion of white folks in the suburb where you live are doing illegal shit, but we don't see the cops regularly violating their civil rights to illegally arrest them and throw them into the teeth of the justice system.Quote:
Originally Posted by DRK Star
Instead, they go for the low hanging fruit of folks who usually don't have the means to fight the injustice of the illegal police activities that don't do anything to actually get drugs off the street, but advance the careers of many many law enforcement personnel, including the cops in this case.
huh?
How do I not understand civil rights?
also, I probably have more blacks living in my building than you in your entire town. NW burbs of Chicago
What exactly do you think Im not understanding? The cops violated his rights and should be punished.
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Answer me this you idiot...Quote:
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How many people has this happened to where the victim had nothing in their car after the search and then they were either let go or arrested for some other made up bullshit?Quote:
...the video showed Pruente walking up to Sperling's car, reaching in the open window, unlocking the door, pulling Sperling out, handcuffing him, and placing him in the back seat of a patrol car. Only then did the officers move to search the car.
Obviously, it's had to have happened many times unless you think the cops of psychic powers and somehow only manage to do this to people they pull over that they can magically tell have drugs stashed in their car. That's why they get punished severely. It's not about this one instance moron. It's about how they do their job in general or do you actually believe this was a one time thing?
Clearly, they've violated way more innocent peoples civil rights doing this bullshit than they have actually violated them first, then found something and the perp got let free. Not to mention flat out lying to the judge...
The fact that you can see these types of things is embarrassing.
DESTROYED
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