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 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 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 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 [...]
December 5, 2008 – 12:18 pm
Lawyer bill for federal case could reach $1 million
By David Heinzmann and Steve Mills | Tribune reporters
December 5, 2008
The union representing Chicago’s police officers has decided to pay for the criminal defense of indicted former detective Cmdr. Jon Burge, who is facing federal prosecution, accused of lying about torturing suspects, Fraternal Order of [...]
November 22, 2008 – 5:11 am
Now that everyone realizes Richard Doroniuk is a corrupt cop, will it mean that he will pay for the murder of Dantwan Betts? Chicago Cop Watch hopes so. [Read the article "Missed Signals" from the Archives]
CHICAGO, Nov. 20 (UPI) — A former Chicago police officer has alleged in federal court that he once gave a [...]
