I'm wondering why these
isolated incidents are so easy to find, given how isolated they are.
In this one, a couple of cops, irritated because a guy had disarmed a deranged, drunk cop, tried to frame the guy for attempted child molestation.
Two trials and a $2 million dollar judgment later, no lessons have been learned.
There've been kind of a flurry of isolated incidents in Chicago, of late:
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The Chicago Police Department has been beset by an array of nasty public relations setbacks [ed. Yup; that's all they are: PR setbacks] in recent weeks. Seven members of a now disbanded elite unit, the special operations division, face charges that they beat and shook down civilians.
One member of the unit, which was formed to crack down on drug-dealing street gangs, is charged with plotting the murder of a fellow officer to prevent him from becoming a prosecution [witness].
Videotapes introduced in two other court cases show police apparently beating a group of businessmen in one barroom altercation and a husky off-duty officer beating a 115-pound female bartender in another instance.
