Do you think only police officers should own guns? Do you think only police officers should be able to walk around with a gun in public? The University of Illinois-Chicago Political Science Department just released this shocking
report(PDF) on Chicago police corruption. Here's a little extract:
An analysis of five decades of news reports reveals that since 1960, at least 300 Chicago
Police officers have been convicted of serious crimes, such as drug dealing, beatings of civilians,
destroying evidence, protecting mobsters, theft and murder.
There's more:
There have been 103 convictions of Chicago police since the beginning of 2000.
A few bad apples?
overtime a large portion of police corruption has shifted from policemen aiding
and abetting mobsters and organized crime to officers involved with drugs dealers and street
gangs. Since the year 2000, a total of 47 Chicago law enforcement officers were convicted of
drug and gang related crimes.
Chicago is a banana republic:
The case of 2nd District Commander Jon Burge accused of torturing suspects to extract confessions is the most notorious, high-profile example of the lack of accountability in the
department involving several state’s attorneys and mayors. The “blue wall of silence” protected
Burge and his many accomplices. Despite numerous courts overturning convictions and several
media exposés, the CPD leadership and Mayor’s office denied and evaded evidence that Burge
and 64 other officers tortured more than 100 African-American suspects over several decades. In
addition, dozens, if not hundreds, of police officers, who were present at the stations while the
torture occurred or who heard about it from co-workers, failed to report the torture to the proper
authorities.
What could be worse than this? What if the Chief of Detectives was a high level organized crime associate for
decades! Why doesn't Barack Obama try and "reform" his corrupt hometown instead trying to disarm law abiding American citizens?
