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    Police Abuse: No Consequences

    News
    Johnson and Rahm

    In top cop’s old district, complaints about police abuse

    By Emily Hoerner and Adrienne Hurst | April 15, 2016

    Between 2008 and 2012, the years that interim Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson commanded the Gresham district, Injustice Watch identified 15 federal lawsuits accusing a group of officers of illegal searches and arrests, at times using unnecessary force.

    Police Abuse: No Consequences

    As cops’ versions of shootings contested, City pays millions

    By Emily Hoerner, Zoe Rosenbaum and Sam Hart | January 25, 2016

    Ten times in the last five years, the City of Chicago has paid $1 million or more to settle claims stemming from fatal shootings by Chicago police officers, city records show. All of the 10 people shot were African-American. Eight were 25 or younger. Nine were men. Nine of the shootings occurred on the South Side.

    Chicago police abuse on video
    Police Abuse: No Consequences

    Beat, shoot or abuse someone? No jail for Chicago cops

    By Emily Hoerner, Zoe Rosenbaum and Rick Tulsky | January 14, 2016

    About four times a month, officers shoot suspects, bystanders or other police. Yet, in a typical year, prosecutors bring excessive-force charges against on-duty Chicago police fewer than two times a year, an Injustice Watch analysis of federal and state data shows.

    Police Abuse: No Consequences

    Feds seldom make cops answer for police brutality

    By Rick Tulsky and Emily Hoerner | January 14, 2016

    U.S. attorneys across the country charge law enforcement officers in civil rights cases about 42 times a year, declining to prosecute more than nine in every 10 cases referred to prosecutors by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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