Was Anti-police Legislation Preventable?
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by Martin Preib
3y ago
Northwest Side Faction Key In Legislation Passing? To hear the spin of current FOP President John Catanzara and his supporters, the creation of a radical anti-police legislation signed into law by Governor Pritzker on Monday was inevitable. There was nothing the union that represents thousands of officers now about to be thrown under the anti-police bus could do, Catanzara has maintained. But more and more, the story of this legislation, from its inception to law, tells a different story. First, there is the vote itself. Garnering just enough votes in a late-night session from anti-police act ..read more
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Perjury Trap of General Flynn Rooted in Obama’s Hometown?
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by Martin Preib
3y ago
Accusations of Perjury Traps Are Nothing New in Chicago… The nation is now debating an ominous allegation: Did Barack Obama’s Department of Justice put a highly decorated general in a perjury trap as part of political conspiracy against the president? Journalist Sarah Carter: District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan unsealed four pages of stunning FBI emails and handwritten notes Wednesday, regarding former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, which allegedly reveal the retired three star general was targeted by senior FBI officials for prosecution, stated Flynn’s defense att ..read more
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Deano Finds His Voice...Sort Of
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by Martin Preib
3y ago
FOP President Dean Angelo . . . that is, former FOP president Dean Angelo, the former president not acting as a spokesman for the FOP, appeared on WTTW this week to discuss the Jason Van Dyke trial and other union issues with interviewer Carol Marin and fellow guest, journalist Jamie Kalven. Angelo’s appearance in front of two media figures who have so powerfully attacked the reputations and jobs of police officers comes just a few months after he made a spectacular announcement on the first floor of the criminal courts building at 26th and California. It was in the middle of the Jas ..read more
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Futterman, WBEZ Fudge Figures on Police Misconduct?
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by Martin Preib
3y ago
Framing Cops to Free Felons?  Among Marxists and other revolutionary groups, a fundamental strategy is to glom onto democratic institutions under the guise of supporting and strengthening those institutions.  But the revolutionaries are not sincere. Rather, their alliance with these institutions is a revolutionary ruse, a way for the radicals to burrow into the political and legal infrastructure of a society and slowly transform it into an agent of their own designs.  One leftist institution that has adopted this strategy is the National Lawyers Guild, a far left organization wi ..read more
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Renegade Commission Eyes Release of Killer, Tortures Families of Victims
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by Martin Preib
3y ago
In what might very well be a nail in the coffin of the Illinois criminal justice system, a controversial state commission ruling may initiate the release of perhaps the most depraved killer in the city’s modern history.  The Illinois Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission (TIRC) may recommend that Jerry Mahaffey’s murder conviction be reviewed by the courts, based on Mahaffey’s spurious claim that he and his brother, Reginald Mahaffey, were tortured by investigating detectives for a 1983 double murder on the far north side of Chicago. This review could pave the way for Mahaffey’s release ..read more
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Torture Commission Victory a Catastrophe For Chicago Cops?
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by Martin Preib
3y ago
Court Ruling Frees Another Convicted Killer, Gives New Life to Tainted Torture Commission... An appeals court decision that prompted the release of yet another convicted killer two weeks ago could be a catastrophe for members of the Chicago police department. The court overturned the conviction of Shawn Whirl for the 1990 murder and robbery of a cab driver. Whirl claimed he had been tortured into confessing by a detective who had worked with former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge. A special prosecutor declined to retry the case, so Whirl went free.  The appeals court decision reversed ..read more
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What Can The Caucus Do?
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by Martin Preib
3y ago
The rumors started about four days before the actual event.  But no one, not even the police officers who were shot that night, believed them.  Besides, it was an impossible level of corruption, even for Chicago and Illinois.  But the rumors kept flying, from more and more sources. The officers started to get nervous.  Could the inmate in prison, Howard Morgan, who shot three police officers in 2005 during a traffic stop actually be set free by Governor Quinn right as the governor left office? And could the governor do so without even providing a piece of evidence in the ca ..read more
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Prosecutors Get Pass in Key Wrongful Conviction Case?
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by Martin Preib
3y ago
It was an incident captured on video that devastated the image of the Chicago Police around the world, a drunken, irate, off-duty police officer, Anthony Abbate, brutally attacking a defenseless female bartender, Karolina Obrycka.  It took place in 2007. Abbate was charged and found guilty of Aggravated Battery, and sentenced to probation. He was also fired, the superintendent assailing Abbate’s conduct in media events.  A theory emerged in the lawsuit that was difficult for many Chicago cops to digest. It was the claim that the department somehow had gone to bat for the officer, tha ..read more
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Crooked Journalists Frantic over False Narratives...
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by Martin Preib
3y ago
In the Chicago Police Department, there is a strict policy against lying under oath or on reports, called “a rule 14 violation.” It prohibits a cop from “making a false report, written or oral.”  If a cop is caught doing so, he or she is subject to termination.  A key reason for firing a cop for a rule 14 violation is the argument that when a cop has been caught lying once, nothing he or she says on the stand can ever be believed again. All a defense attorney has to do is produce the evidence of this lying and the officer is discredited.  Among Chicago journalists, no such penal ..read more
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The Ferguson Effect
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by Martin Preib
3y ago
People around the country are becoming anxious over the growing lawlessness and violence throughout the country. They’ve even coined a phrase for it: The Ferguson Effect.  It’s one of the first times the national media acknowledged that the movement to vilify the police, as was the case in Ferguson, is having a dire effect on policing, particularly in large cities.   Conservative columnist Patrick Buchanan describes it as well as anyone: This year, 24 cops have been gunned down. And the day after deputy Goforth’s execution, “Black Lives Matter!” showed up at the Minnesota state fair ..read more
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