Another Chicago PD screw-up results in another lawsuit. Victim of botched Chicago police raid sues city, officers | Fox News
An unnamed informant gave police Young’s address, saying a man was illegally possessing a gun there. In video of the raid released in December, a naked Young repeatedly tells officers they have the wrong home and that there are no guns in the apartment.
Cops are supposed to verify that information from "informants" is correct. Key phrase "supposed to." Also they are supposed to turn on their body cameras.
I've been told I concentrate too much on Chicago. But once upon a time, it was home. And they make it so damn easy. Chicago PD screw-ups cost the city and the taxpayers millions of dollars. It costs the idiot cops nothing.
CPD has conducted raids on bogus data from informants, or in some cases from the officers themselves. Cops who will say they don't have body cameras - even though they signed for one earlier in the day. Cops that don't turn on the body cameras. Cops who can't be bothered to get the least little bit right. And of course the Brass, and the lawyers and the judges all race down that path right behind the cops, and request/issue the warrants based on nothing.
The local CBS station in Chicago put together a documentary in 2019 on the insane number of police raids conducted at the wrong address. And it is a truly insane number. Not that cops will fess up about exactly HOW MANY raids end up being at the wrong address. It is 28 minutes, so plan accordingly. '[un]warranted,' a CBS 2 News Documentary
What is an "insane" number? 1,098? or 22?
ReplyDeleteCPD is still fighting to keep that data under wraps. One statistic in the documentary is '11,000 search warrants since 2016.' Even if the failure rate is something like 2 percent that is hundreds of search warrants.
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One search warrant highlighted in the documentary was for the arrest a guy who was in Illinois State prison at the time officers requested, the brass and the lawyers approved and the judge signed. With controls like that - and a COMPLETE lack of consequences for the officers/lawyers/judges involved - do you think the failure rate is 2 percent? I don't. I would be surprised if it were less than 30 percent.
That 11,000 number is the total search warrants in either Chicago or Cook County.
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