A Chicago police officer is being accused of beating and sticking his gun in the mouth of a mentally disabled teen before filing false reports in order to cover it up. According to a federal lawsuit, officer Matthew Jackson became livid after 18-year-old Nathaniel Taylor walked across the lawn at his West Side home in […]
Chicago Mayor Proposes Scrapping Police Accountibility Board For Civlian Investigative Agency
Media pressure on police has hit Chicago PD particularly hard, ignited by the Laquan Mcdonald shooting. Everything’s starting to hang free, from Chicago PD’s off-the-books detention facility, to it’s perpetual cover ups of wrongdoing. The latter recently provoked Mayor Rahm Emanuel to make a bold consideration, whether or not to scrap the city’s broken accountability […]
Chicago Cop Sentenced to Just 60 Days in Jail After Molesting Subordinate’s 9 Year-Old Girl
Dennis Barnes, a retired Chicago cop, was cleared of sexual assault against another officer’s pre-teen daughter, after being invited over for a first time family BBQ. The mother of the child and current Chicago police officer is furious about the judgement. She believes that all evidence was provided to secure a conviction of the more […]
FOP Union Hires Jason Van Dyke Despite Outrage
Jason Van Dyke is the former Chicago police employee who shot and killed Laquan McDonald in October of 2014. The murder would have never come to light if it weren’t for a lawsuit settlement offered by the city – before the family could file their own. A suit that settled later for five million dollars. Since then Van […]
Chicago Police Rack Up $662 Million Dollar Bill for Misconduct
Chicago Police Amount 662 Million Dollars in Settlements American Intelligence Report Chicago Police have been plagued by huge settlements for misconduct, totaling $662 million in payments since 2004, ABC reports. The staggering total includes “everything from petty harassment to police torture, have brought more financial misery to a city already drowning in billions of dollars of pension debt.” Very few police officers are […]
Spotlighting A Black Site: Chicago-Local Officials Pass Resolution Calling For DOJ Probe Of Homan Square
County officials near Chicago recently upped the ante amidst a federal probe of the cities police. Their grievances, however, don’t revolve around the slaughter of yet another unarmed citizen, which provoked initial inquiry. Instead, Cook County officials have united in an effort to highlight Chicago PD’s controversial detention facility– Homan Square. Despite the scale of crimes […]
Breaking Update: Chicago PD Threatened Laquan McDonald Witnesses; Fabricated Statements
Three witnesses to the Laquan McDonald murder in Chicago have come forward stating that they were intimidated and threatened for hours by the Chicago police in an attempt to get them to change their stories to match that of the official narrative. When that was unsuccessful, their statements were left out and other statements were […]
No Charges For Chicago Cop Filmed Shooting Ronald Johnson In The Back – Family Allege “Cover-Up”
The Chicago police department is in the spotlight again after Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez said during a press conference on Monday that officer George Hernandez will not face charges despite dash-cam video showing him shoot down a fleeing man in the back. Prosecutors say 25-year-old Ronald “Ronnieman” Johnson left a party at around […]
Rahm Emanuel op-ed: I Own the Problem of Police Brutality and I’ll Fix It
In an op-ed published in the Chicago Tribune, Mayor Rahm Emmanuel is publicly taking personal responsibility for police brutality in Chicago, as well as, promising to fix the problem. Chicago’s history is heavily tainted with police brutality and corruption. Chicago is facing a defining moment on the issues of crime and policing and the even […]
Jason Van Dyke’s Police Reports Don’t Match the Video
Late Friday night, the City of Chicago released the police reports written by Jason Van Dyke and the other officers who witnessed their co-worker gun down 17 year old teenager Laquan McDonald. It’s no surprise, but the reports don’t match the video. The Chicago cops who watched their fellow officer shoot a black teenager 16 […]
