Elite Chicago Cops charged with shaking down drug dealers for $600,000

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Former Chicago Police Officer Jerome Finnigan and three other members of the now-disbanded Special Operations Section were charged Thursday in federal court with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from drug suspects and other civil rights violations.

Finnigan, 48, was previously charged in 2007 with plotting to kill a fellow officer who he believed was cooperating with investigators. He’s been in a federal lockup ever since.

Former Chicago Police Officer Keith Herrera, who wore the wire that captured Finnigan’s alleged murder-for-hire plot, also was charged Thursday in federal court along with Officer Eric Olsen, 37, who’s been on desk duty, and former Officer Stephen DelBosque.

Finnigan and Herrera face separate charges in state court for participating with a ring of Special Operations Section officers that allegedly kidnapped and robbed drug suspects.

Yet, Mayor Daley and Rahm Emanuel think you shouldn't be able to carry a handgun in Chicago! "Progressive" Chicago voters feel safer with only police officers owning handguns.