December 20, 2008 – 1:56 pm
A federal jury awarded $720,000 in damages Friday to a 32-year-old black Marquette Park man who was shot twice by a white member of the scandal-plagued and now-disbanded Chicago police Special Operations Section in 2002. Crispus Booker, who has since moved from Chicago, was sitting on his porch in the 6800 block of South Talman [...]
December 19, 2008 – 1:56 pm
Two suspects are in custody after an off-duty Chicago Police officer discharged a weapon early Friday afternoon near a Near South Side high school. No one was injured. The officer discharged a weapon near the intersection of 23rd Street and South Wabash Avenue, according to Independent Police Review Authority spokesman Ilana Rosenzweig. She said no [...]
December 19, 2008 – 9:32 am
Plans to train, put U.S. troops on the streets worry rights advocates
By Ashahed M. Muhammad | FinalCall.com
Plans announced by the U.S. Department of Defense to have 20,000 additional uniformed troops dispatched in America by 2011 have been met with criticism from former veterans, law enforcement officials and rights activists concerned that it represents the latest [...]
December 18, 2008 – 9:31 am
Girlfriend returned cell phone, he got life sentence for robbery
By Steve Schmadeke | Tribune reporter
Michael Glasper, 39, of Riverdale filed a federal lawsuit alleging Chicago police framed him for robbery.
Zbigniew Bzdak/Tribune
A Riverdale man alleges in a federal lawsuit that his girlfriend’s attempt to do a good deed by returning a cell phone found in [...]
December 16, 2008 – 10:49 am
KOPBUSTERS: Kops Busted In Illegal Raid. Drugs Planted. Examine The Evidence. Altered Police Reports. FREE YOLANDA
It’s called an informant plant. The Odessa narcotics unit illegally compelled an informant to plant drugs on Yolanda Madden. The informant testified in federal court he planted the drugs on her and he [...]
December 15, 2008 – 7:26 am
By Annie Sweeney, Chicago Sun Times
With murders up 16 percent, Chicago Police officials Friday announced they are launching a second Mobile Strike Force unit to work in high-crime neighborhoods.
Through Friday morning, there had been 487 murders in Chicago, up from 421 at the same time last year, police said.
Violent crime is up 2.6 percent and [...]
December 11, 2008 – 2:00 pm
By Dan P. Blake
A 19-year-old man was charged this morning after Chicago police said he pointed a gun at an officer. The officer then fired, wounding the man in the leg.
The incident occurred last week on the South Side.
December 10, 2008 – 8:57 am
Thursday, the Fraternal Order of Police, the union representing Chicago’s police officers, annouced it would pay for the criminal defense of indicted former Detective Jon Burge, 60. This may cost the Union millions of dollars. The Chicago Tribune wrote a letter asking Second City Cop, an anonymous blog where officers discuss their perspectives, about the [...]
December 9, 2008 – 12:00 pm
According to the Chicago Tribune off-duty Chicago police officer Pedro Solis, who fired 11 of the 16 shots that struck Lopez, admited drinking before being involved in the car chase that led to the death of 2005 Emmanuel Lopez.
Only a few weeks Cook County prosecutors closed a two-year long probe into the shooting with the [...]
December 9, 2008 – 8:32 am
By Chuck Goudie, ABC Chicago
CHICAGO (WLS) — A former Chicago cop who secretly worked for the Chicago mob says enough is enough: he should be released from jail.
He is Anthony Doyle who was convicted of aiding and abetting the outfit in Operation Family Secrets.
One-time cop Anthony Doyle hasn’t even been sentenced yet, but according to [...]
