Chicago Police to Disband Elite Unit (Rampant Misconduct)

[LeighAnn]

Source: Tri-City Post

CHICAGO (AP) The Chicago Police Department will disband an elite drug and gang unit under state and federal investigation for allegations ranging from armed violence and home invasion to kidnapping and plotting a murder-for-hire, officials said Tuesday.

"The recent incidents involving officer misconduct have been disheartening and demoralizing, especially to the officers who serve this department honorably every single day," said interim Police Superintendent Dana Starks.

Seven members of the Special Operations Section have been charged with belonging to a rogue band of officers who used their badges to shake down residents and intimidate people. All have pleaded not guilty.

One of those officers, Jerome Finnigan, was charged two weeks ago with plotting to hire someone to murder another member of the unit to keep him from talking to the government.

Read more: http://www.tri-cityherald.com/24hour/nation/story/3715931p-13156043c.html

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[proudleftists]

1. Chicago Police

Are out of control.This move is just so much window dressing.
I am a life long resident of Cook Country, within one year
IMHO the brutality will be back. Mayor Daley has not been a
good Mayor and his administration is very corrupt.The Mayor is
a very ignorant man. Beyone Welch - Chicago resident

[1monster]

4. They always have been. Remember the Democratic Convention in 1968?

Police riot against the demonstrators?

[pnorman]

2. Chicago's "Red Squad" was even worse!

Fred Hampton: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton

pnorman

[SlingBlade]

3. I've heard that before !

[BadgerLaw2010]

5. Love "The Shield." Great show.

[tom_paine]

6. That's what they MEAN when they SAY "elite"

They mean the ones who will fabricate evidence without conscience nor compunction.

Those who will beat and kill those who need to be beaten and killed, then, as Dave Chapelle colorfully puts it, "then sprinkle crack on them."

This gets worse and worse and Amerika finishes transitioning from Liberty to Tyranny.

[Renew Deal]

7. This sounds like something out of Training Day

Or The Departed

[Aviation Pro]

8. "When you're looking down the barrel of a gun.....

....what's the difference?"

[mark414]

9. police acting in a unsavory way??? oh no i don't believe my ears....