Mayor Daley Wants to Stop Police Corruption...

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Chicago Mayor Seeks Police Misconduct Oversight

Updated: May 4th, 2007 10:45 AM EDT

By DEANNA BELLANDI
Associated Press Writer

CHICAGO --

After several public embarrassments, including the videotaped beating of a woman bartender, allegedly by an off-duty Chicago police officer, Chicago's mayor suggested Thursday that the agency that reviews police misconduct allegations should report directly to him.

The agency now reports to the police superintendent. The mayor's proposal, which will be introduced at next week's City Council meeting, comes as the city tries to quash a perception that rogue officers are not held accountable.

"We must assure every Chicagoan that we are doing everything possible to prevent abuse by police," Mayor Richard M. Daley said.

In addition to the bar beating, four businessmen also say they were beaten by six off-duty officers.

At a news conference a month ago, a police watchdog group and several attorneys said the police department has done little to stop abuse by officers. The group wanted an independent review agency to investigate allegations of misconduct.

Police Superintendent Phil Cline recently announced he will step down once his replacement is found.

Under Daley's plan, the Office of Professional Standards would become a separate city department with subpoena power.

"I am grateful that we have come to the realization that the superintendent of the department is not the end-all-be-all, and that there has to be an authority above him in order that the needs of the citizens of the city of Chicago might be met," said the Rev. Albert Tyson, one of a number of local religious leaders who appeared with Daley at a news conference.

The head of the Chicago police union did not immediately return a call for comment.

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"I am grateful that we have come to the realization that the superintendent of the department is not the end-all-be-all, and that there has to be an authority above him in order that the needs of the citizens of the city of Chicago might be met," said the Rev. Albert Tyson, one of a number of local religious leaders who appeared with Daley at a news conference.
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And he really thinks that DALEY is that person??????? Rev, you need to lay off that sacramental wine - it's killing way too many brain cells!
 
Notice he wants to stamp out Police corruption....

Mayoral Corruption is still business as usual.
 
Colt 46 posted
Notice he wants to stamp out Police corruption....

Mayoral Corruption is still business as usual.
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Has hit the nail right on the head. IMHO the only reason this is occuring is due to video camera and the news media.

NukemJim
 
*snicker* The city is based upon abuse by the government. How can one fight his own nature?

WLS just announced that they fired a Chicago cop for participating in a ATM card shakedown scheme. The news story made it appear that it was something new, but it happened to me back in '93.

The only way to reform Chicago is go bust it into several different cities, deDaleyize the city, and start from zero.
 
Didn't I hear something that went, "Lead By Example"?

Same goes for arms. How can we trust them when they don't trust us? It must be that they have intentions that, were we armed, we wouldn't put up with what they're up to. Meaning, they don't trust us not to stop them.

Bottom line, they are untrustworthy! Vote for people who trust you, and you'll end up with people in office you can trust not to disarm you.

Woody

"The power of those in government to use common sense shall not be infringed. It is imperative, however, to elect people to those positions of power who possess common sense. Remember that at the next election." B.E.Wood
 
We must assure every Chicagoan that we are doing everything possible to prevent abuse by police

Notice that he basically admits that police abuse is inevitable, which is the reason that only the police should have guns in Chicago.

jm
 
Hasn't Chicago been fighting police corruption in one form or another since about a week after the department came into existence?:evil:
 
The juxtaposition of the words "Mayor Daley" and "stop corruption" made me nearly pull a stomach muscle.
 
I'm curious to see if Daley continues to get grief over the police torture that went on when Daley was the State's Attorney. He is supposed to have condoned what went on, and people are starting to call him out for it.

Wouldn't that be nice? Daley and Ryan as cellmates.
 
I believe Chicago has ~13,000 police officers. You're bound to find some there that aren't on the good end. But from my experience with CPD, they seem to be a pretty good police agency. I've never had any problems with them at all.
 
I believe Chicago has ~13,000 police officers. You're bound to find some there that aren't on the good end. But from my experience with CPD, they seem to be a pretty good police agency. I've never had any problems with them at all.
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I'm from Chicago, and I've been watching the Chicago PD for a while, due to their recent pratfalls.

One thing which comes through loud and clear is the ORGANIZATIONAL taint that exists in the Chicago PD. You might find an individual Chicago cop who doesn't steal, etc., but he or she's swimming upstream against the ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE. And when you ask this theoretical "honest" Chicago cop if he'd ever turn in another cop for a SERIOUS offense? Crickets.

For YEARS, the Chicago PD ran a TORTURE CHAMBER which made Abu Ghraib look like a day spa. The guy who ran it skated and now runs (if I remember correctly) a charter boat service in Florida. The Cook County State's Attorney's office UTTERLY refuses to make ANY attempt to work its way around the statute of limitations for those who ran it. And in the meantime, who's paying the over $800,000 legal fees of the head torturer? That's right, the City of Chicago.

I've been reading a Chicago cop's blog since the beating of that female bartender, and most people here would probably be astonished at the number of posts [allegedly by cops] who not only think that officer Abbate shouldn't go to prison, but that he should keep his job.

The Chicago PD regularly displays a positively Soviet public relations model. When faced with a scandal involving police intimidation of witnesses, what does it do? It harasses the media and shows deferential treatment to the [police] suspect NEVER shown to others.

I think that all you really need to know about the mindset of the Chicago PD as a culture is contained in a story National Public Radio did on a proposed gun control law in Illinois in early '96. It was a local version of the Lautenberg ban on convicted domestic abusers owning or having guns. It was set to sail through the state legislature UNTIL... the Chicago FOP learned that it did NOT exempt cops. There followed absolutely the strangest series of statements I've heard in an interview until I heard the "roving ambassador" for the Taliban interviewed [again on NPR] shortly before 9/11. The one which has ever since defined the Chicago PD for me was, "If you take the gun away from an angry, violent cop, that'll only make him MORE angry and violent."

The Chicago PD is irretrievably corrupt and thuggish. It has been since before I was born. I don't EVER see that changing.
 
Mayor Daley Wants to Stop Police Corruption...
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He just dislikes the competition.

For YEARS, the Chicago PD ran a TORTURE CHAMBER which made Abu Ghraib look like a day spa. The guy who ran it skated and now runs (if I remember correctly) a charter boat service in Florida.
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Can you provide a link for that? I've never heard that one.
 
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