Crooked Cops Framed 15 Innocent Men (Chicago: crime, how much, attorney)

[Motion]

Makes you wonder how much this has happened in the past? No wonder some communities mistrust the cops.

The men whose charges were tossed alleged that Watts and his team of officers planted drugs on them during arrests between 2003 and 2008, then falsified police reports, leading to their convictions, according to the Exoneration Project, a free legal clinic at the University of Chicago Law School that presented the cases to county prosecutors.

15 men exonerated in one day -- and 7 Chicago cops taken off the

[nana053]

Originally Posted by Motion

Makes you wonder how much this has happened in the past? No wonder some communities mistrust the cops.

And the cops were *taken off the streets?* How about fired and arrested and tried?

[coldwine]

Originally Posted by nana053

And the cops were *taken off the streets?* How about fired and arrested and tried?

For doing what the CPD paid them to do?

Of course not.

[OyCrumbler]

How does doing something like this not wrack a person with guilt?

[lepoisson]

Originally Posted by OyCrumbler

How does doing something like this not wrack a person with guilt?

The people who commit these acts are sociopaths who have no conscience.

[Motion]

From the article:

Gipson's attorney, Joshua Tepfer of the Exoneration Project, said officers took money from and charged dozens of people for crimes they did not commit.

"They were skimming off people, and anyone who would get in their way, they would frame them," he told CNN. "And anyone who tried to report them, they would frame them."

This sounds like the type of things you hear about happening under some corrupt third world governments.

[usamathman]

Originally Posted by Motion

Makes you wonder how much this has happened in the past? No wonder some communities mistrust the cops.

In the current system we live in anything goes.

Who knows how many 100's or 1000's of innocent people have had to suffer because of the corruption.

Much easier to pass the blame on black on black crime in Chicago.

[ABUV]

Black on Black crime is now being blamed on the police? Please let me know how you came to that conclusion. Blacks have been violent ever since slavery ended. Once they chill the 'f' out, peace will come again. I do not understand anger that has overstayed its welcome.

[nana053]

Originally Posted by ABUV

Black on Black crime is now being blamed on the police? Please let me know how you came to that conclusion. Blacks have been violent ever since slavery ended. Once they chill the 'f' out, peace will come again. I do not understand anger that has overstayed its welcome.

You have a seriously flawed understanding of this. It was the white KKK that became more violent after the slaves were freed.

https://www.khanacademy.org/humaniti...-after-slavery

From the late 1860s white supremacists in the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) terrorized African American leaders and citizens in the South until, in 1871, the US Congress passed legislation that resulted in the arrest and imprisonment of Klan leaders and the end of the Klan’s terrorism of Americans for a time.
But over the course of the late 1860s and throughout the 1870s, the federal government’s military presence was withdrawn from various southern states, and with the Compromise of 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes ordered the last federal troops in the South to withdraw.
With no troops to enforce the Fourteenth and Fifteen Amendments, Reconstruction was at an end. Across the South lynching, disenfranchisement, and segregationist laws proliferated. It would not be until after the Second World War and the 1960s Civil Rights Movement that Jim Crow segregation would be outlawed.

Do you think that black people should not have defended themselves against this violence?

[usamathman]

Originally Posted by nana053

You have a seriously flawed understanding of this. It was the white KKK that became more violent after the slaves were freed.

https://www.khanacademy.org/humaniti...-after-slavery



Do you think that black people should not have defended themselves against this violence?

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