Category: Police Misconduct
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Very Important IL Supreme Court decision for the civil rights of IL individuals
Video technology is now commonplace in it’s use by individuals as well as the government. Video and the internet played a major role in communicating the civil unrest in many societies this past year and basically proved impossible to suppress.The government and law enforcement has used video for years but, in Illinois, the police have…
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How Many Cops Don’t Get Their Paperwork Done Either? And other stories…
Annual city ethics statements are well, like annual. So, some of these cops, not just their supervisors, should have known they had to file their statements and the deadline for doing so. Cops have to do a lot of paperwork just like some of us at our jobs. We never really hear about cops messing…
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Just What You Suspect – Police Make Up Laws To Ticket You, Just For The Money…
Readers will love this news item! We have all experienced having been pulled over on the road by the traffic cop and being told some information that we find questionable. Most of us (as in 10,429 of these Floridia drivers) meekly accept what the traffic cop tells us or cites us for. Not this one…
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More Usual Than You Think
This article illustrates the ways in which police officers knowingly bend the rules and deliberately try to circumvent the rights of defendants when they are in jail. They are not supposed to do this, but they do it all the time. Richard sent in this article as an example of what happened to him at…
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Investigation goes on 3 years after Rockford lawyer’s shooting death – Rockford Register Star
This article is substantially just a reprint of the same information the Rockford Register-Star prints on each anniversary of the murder of Greg Clark. The authorities put out the hint that they are confident that they have the right individual targeted in their investigation and that they simply are tightening up the evidence in the…
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Cop Gets One Year Sentence After Two Rape Charges | Women’s Rights | Change.org
by Alex DiBranco January 22, 2011 It seemed like a pretty solid case against San Antonio, TX, Officer Craig Nash. The rape kit turned up his DNA, and GPS put his squad car where his accuser said she was taken captive and then raped. Gotta love technology. The victim went to the police station immediately…
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News and Talk of Sonoma County
By KAREN HAWKINS Associated Press A former Chicago police officer convicted of lying about the torture of suspects told a federal judge Friday he was sorry his case has harmed the reputation of the police department he loved _ but he stopped well short of admitting any guilt. Standing before the court, Jon Burge said…
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Burge’s sentence not enough to foster healing – Chicago Sun-Times
mary mitchell On Friday, U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow sentenced Jon Burge to 4½ years in prison for perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with the systematic torture of African-American suspects in the 1970s and 1980s. The sentencing of the former police commander closes an ugly chapter of Chicago’s history but does not in…
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First day of sentencing finishes for Burge – chicagotribune.com
By Annie Sweeney, Tribune reporter Inside the interrogation room almost four decades ago, Anthony Holmes testified Thursday, he looked around at the other detectives as then-Chicago police Lt. Jon Burge electric-shocked and choked him. Somebody would help, say “that is enough,” Holmes said he thought at the time. But no one did, he said at…