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 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 – 12:18 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 [...]
December 3, 2008 – 6:11 pm
Officer allegedly stopped bystanders from trying to save boy
Tribune staff report
A relative of a 5-year-old who drowned last summer after falling off a rock ledge at Jackson Park Harbor sued Chicago police, alleging that an officer prevented bystanders from trying to rescue the boy.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in Cook County Circuit Court, contended that the [...]
November 30, 2008 – 10:46 am
Chicago police shot and wounded a man during a confrontation early this morning at the Altgeld Gardens housing complex on the city’s Far South Side.
The shooting occurred about 1:10 a.m. on the 600 block of East 131st Street (map / crime stats for this neighborhood), according to a Chicago Police Department news release.
Officers were confronted [...]
