The drunk cop who killed two people (Chicago, Champaign: lawyers, live in)

[skipcromer]

Originally Posted by ChiMack

and tried to flee an accident and had previous history of getting behind the wheel drunk, his bail was 500,000 but the guy who killed three people including the angels pitcher got 2 million..whats the deal

I understand what you are saying, the only thing I can tell you is different states have different laws / philosophies that go into how much bail is.

I was listening to a couple lawyers on the radio (890 AM maybe) and they were saying his 500,000 is pretty on par with what you would see in Illinois.

[Avengerfire]

Originally Posted by via chicago

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3622/...d7de3ee6_b.jpg

Did you put that up? You are going to be looking at jail time yourself.

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by via chicago

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3622/...d7de3ee6_b.jpg

I'd think that was totally hillarious if it weren't at the Wilson stop. We have a particularly annoying breed of cop haters in Uptown, and frankly I hate them more than the crooked cops. Nothing but a bunch of left wing loonie pinkos. They follow this piece of **** lawyer around who's got nothing better to do than protest in front of condo buildings.

[via chicago]

Originally Posted by Avengerfire

Did you put that up? You are going to be looking at jail time yourself.

Oooh, im scared

(no i didnt put it. they're all over town. this photo was posted on Chcagoist).

[noid_1985]

We learn about more and more dumbass cops everyday...the past few years for Chicago cops have been bad.

[ChiMack]

More details on Chicago cop DUI arrests released - Chicago Breaking News

[ChiMack]

its not that bad only 13 the whole year, although it should be 0

[noid_1985]

Originally Posted by ChiMack

its not that bad only 13 the whole year, although it should be 0

I guess that's not too bad-1 incident for every 1000 city cops

[EyesInTheSky]

Originally Posted by skipcromer

I understand what you are saying, the only thing I can tell you is different states have different laws / philosophies that go into how much bail is.

I was listening to a couple lawyers on the radio (890 AM maybe) and they were saying his 500,000 is pretty on par with what you would see in Illinois.

Just an anecdote related to this thread: Last December 2008 in Champaign County there was a 53-year old chemist named Elizabeth Drewes that was driving drunk and she killed a 24-year old woman on a local stretch of interstate highway. Drewes was driving the wrong way (westbound in the eastbound lanes). Drewes had no previous criminal record (although she did have a pending DUI charge with no injuries from September 2008). Her bond was set at $5 million, which is 10 times the bond of this Chicago cop.

Drewes pled guilty on April 1, 2009 and is going to be sentenced next month, where she'll almost certainly get the maximum penalty, which is 14 years in prison.

I grew up in Chicago and I completely agree with the others on this thread that say Chicago cops tend to be very corrupt and when they get caught the system usually goes easy on them. I could cite many examples of this both from official records and personal experience. In my view, the root problem is Illinois does not have an honest and reliable watchdog police agency to ferret out official corruption, and it's almost always left to the federal law enforcement agencies to do this kind of thing.

In many states, police corruption investigations are done by the state police, but the Illinois State Police are just as corrupt as everyone else and almost always look the other way when local police departments and politicians engage in corruption. Even worse, sometimes the Illinois State Police directly engage in corruption themselves, although I don't think it's anywhere near the extent of some of these local police departments, such as Chicago.

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by EyesInTheSky

I grew up in Chicago and I completely agree with the others on this thread that say Chicago cops tend to be very corrupt and when they get caught the system usually goes easy on them. I could cite many examples of this both from official records and personal experience.

Considering that the police used to rob people (Summerdale Scandal), beat the crap out of the youth (1968 Democratic Convention), and take bribes to avoid writing tickets--I do think we've improved a bit. Though not much.