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 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 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 [...]
December 8, 2008 – 6:47 pm
Although it sounds just like the script of a classic police movie, FBI agents tricked 15 Illinois law enforcement officers on Tuesday and caught them providing protection for drug traffickers in suburban Chicago. The FBI sting ended with the law enforcement officers being charged with numerous counts which included being remunerated for providing armed protection [...]
December 5, 2008 – 12:35 pm
The board of the Chicago police union is offering to help pay the legal bills for former police commander Jon Burge.
In a written statement released by the Fraternal Order of Police, Union President Mark Donahue says Jon Burge has been unfairly labelled the “poster child” for police misconduct in Chicago. The statement says the union [...]
November 19, 2008 – 2:15 pm
Last night the at the Revolutionary Autonomous Communities fundraiser for the Anarchist Book fair at the food not bombs warehouse on 6th and Santa Fe was raided by the LAPD. They kicked open the door and unlawfully entered in to the private space. Joaquin Cienfuegos a member of RAC and Copwatch LA Guerrilla [...]
October 24, 2008 – 9:32 pm
By Spencer Thayer
Yesterday Daley responded to public pressure asking him to man-up and except some accountability for not attempting to prosecute Jon Burge during the time when he was the State’s Attorney. However in true fucklicious fashion Daley responded in what can best be called a satire of an apology.
“The best way is to say, [...]
