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• A judge reduced by half the bond for Keith Herrera the same day that Herrera's cooperation enabled prosecutors to charge a fellow police officer with a murder-for-hire scheme.

  Judge John Fleming of Cook County Criminal Court slashed Herrera's bond from 4ドル million to 2ドル million Wednesday, court records show. Fleming's order meant Herrera could immediately get back 200,000ドル -- half of the 400,000ドル he had put up. Defendants are usually required to put up 10 percent of their bond to get out of jail.

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• An open letter to the Mayor, Governor and state representatives.
  
  Dear Sirs,
  
  With the recent shootings in the city and such atrocities such as Virginia Tech, the gun debate will perpetuate. Both supporters and opponents of tougher gun laws will undoubtedly present facts and statistics supporting their position. However there is just one fact, just one statistic that no one can refute: gun laws do not stop shootings.
  
  I am a supporter of gun laws and regulation, and believe current laws were designed with the safety and future of our society in mind, but it is painfully obvious that they do not work. One can only look to England for the result of banning all guns, with little impact on crime. The examples are numerous on both sides, but point to the same conclusion: there is no gun law that prevents criminals from possessing guns, and these laws only serve to disarm the innocent. One could also look at the current state of illicit drug abuse and know that strict laws have no effect. Drugs are brought into this country through unprotected sections of our own borders, and so would guns.
  
  Virginia Tech is a gun free zone, but it did not stop Cho Seung-Hui from killing 32 fellow students. How many lives could have been saved if just one of those students was carrying a firearm that day? In 2002, two armed students at Appalachian State University subdued a fellow student who had already killed 3 others. How many deaths were prevented that day, how many were saved because someone was carrying a gun should be the question you ask yourselves. There is no law, and there is nothing that could be said or done to stop someone who is intent on killing people, nothing short of the victims defending themselves. No one wants criminals or mentally ill to have guns, but there is nothing that can stop them, so why take away the ability to defend oneself?
  
  Criminals are just that, criminals. By definition they do not obey laws, and certainly do not obey gun laws. Not to mention what insane people are capable of. I can pick up the news paper on any given day and read of a shooting, and in a city where gun possession is nearly impossible. But this impossibility only exists for the law-abiding citizens of this city who are left defenseless. Criminals are allowed to poison their neighborhoods with drugs, possess guns, and endanger everyone around them with their violence. Criminals break the law with impunity while productive members of society are paying for their crimes, often with their lives.
  
  I am writing to inform you of my support for HB1304, and asking you for your support in allowing honest, respectable members of society a fighting chance to defend themselves and their families. Please join the other 48 states that honor a citizen’s right to keep and bear arms. Allow me to protect myself and my family.
  
  Banning guns only ensures that criminals have them, and that victims stay helpless.

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• In light of recent developments and the oncoming firestorm of negative national publicity, there is absolutely no way for Daley to appoint an insider as the next Superintendent.
  
  They've circled the wagons on the 5th floor at City Hall. CPD HQ is one big clusterfuck.
  
  Daley's dilemma is compounded by the fact that qualified "outsiders" know that clout has finally come home to roost in the CPD.
  
  Watch the mass exodus of the current political hack bosses combined with the "brain drain" of younger, talented officers.
  
  In retrospect, the pre-O.W. Wilson "Summerdale Scandal" was mere child's play.
  
  Ultimately, federal receivership is a given.
  
  Suffice to say that among other things, the days that lie ahead will be most interesting.

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• A Chicago Police officer fatally shot a 15-year-old male Thursday night on the Southeast Side.

  South Chicago District tactical officers in an unmarked car heard a gunshot near East 87th Street and South Commercial Avenue about 9:45 p.m. The officers continued westbound on East 87th Street and saw the teen fire a second shot, police News Affairs Deputy Director Pat Camden said.

  After chasing the shooter on South Exchange Avenue, the teen turned toward the officers with a gun in his hand.

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• The arrest report filed by two Chicago police officers claimed they searched Raymundo Martinez outside a Southwest Side bar because he threw a bottle of Corona down on the sidewalk when he saw them coming.
  
  The officers, members of the special operations section, saw a plastic bag that turned out to contain cocaine poking from his sleeve and arrested him, their report states.
  
  But cameras on the bar's ceiling and outside caught a very different scene that night in 2004 at Caballo's, 3748 W. 63rd St. Instead of two officers approaching a man drinking on a public street, the video shows more than two dozen police from the SOS unit raiding the bar and searching everyone, and arresting Martinez inside the bar.

• After taking on Martinez's case in 2004, defense lawyer Scott Levy said he waited to show the video to prosecutors until after the arresting officer testified in October 2004 about the arrest.
  
  "I asked the police officer at the preliminary hearing what happened, and it was blatantly obvious the police officer had fabricated the entire story," Levy said.

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• A store clerk on the West Side fought back against an alleged robber, shooting him in the head. Chicago police say Monday evening the suspect is in stable condition.
• "He produced the weapon, announced the robbery," said Sgt. Rich Dowling of the Chicago Police Department. "The clerk produced the cash register, at which time he also produced a weapon, and he began firing at the offender."

• A man who identified himself as belonging to a local street gang, but declined to give his name, said he is a close friend of the man who was shot.
  
  "He our friend. We be together every day," the man said. "Just so happened today we weren't with him.
  
  When asked if he thought his friend was trying to rob the hardware store, the man said, "He might have. He might was. If he feel he was robbin' that store, he did what he did."

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• A car circles a high-rise three times. Someone leaves a backpack in a park. Such things go unnoticed in big cities every day. But that could change in Chicago with a new video surveillance system that would recognize such anomalies and alert authorities to take a closer look.

  On Thursday, the city and IBM Corp. are announcing the initial phase of what officials say could be the most advanced video security network in any U.S. city. The City of Broad Shoulders is getting eyes in the back of its head.

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• Madison Hobley, one of three men allegedly coerced into murder confessions by former Chicago Police Lt. Jon Burge, is the subject of an arson and murder investigation by the U.S. Justice Department, a top mayoral aide disclosed today.

• "The federal government is pursuing a murder/arson for the same crime that Madison Hobley was originally convicted" of and pardoned for, Georges said.

  The investigation could go a long way toward explaining why the 14ドル.8 million settlement was never forwarded to the City Council for approval. It also explains why Daley has denied there ever was a deal.

• Once a respected police detective, Burge has become the poster child for police brutality. Now, just a year after state investigators called the cases too old to take to court, federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, known for always getting his man, has Burge clearly in his sights.
  
  "We do officially confirm that the U.S. Attorney's office is conducting a criminal investigation into allegations of perjury, false statements and obstruction of justice," Fitzgerald said Wednesday.

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• RALLY FOR MIKE METTE
  
  A rally will be held at FOP Hall, 1412 W. Washington Blvd., Friday, September 28th from 6 until 11 PM. Tickets can be purchased at the door for 20ドル each. Liquid refreshments* and pizza will be served.
  
  Raffle tickets will be sold that night. The lucky winner will be taking home a TOSHIBA 42" big screen TV, donated by Fettner Development & Construction, Northbrook.
  
  We are hoping and praying that all goes well. Currently, Mike is scheduled to surrender his freedom to Iowa authorities by Monday, October 29.

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• Mayor Daley's 169,452ドル-a-year chief procurement officer abruptly resigned Tuesday, leaving behind a department that has struggled to boost black contracting and weed out minority fronts.

  Barbara Lumpkin, 57, said she's decided to "take a pause" after a long career in government and finance that included stints as city comptroller, budget director and city treasurer.

• But under Lumpkin's watch, not a single company has been barred from doing business with the city.

  On her way out the door, Lumpkin disclosed that there are several fraud cases pending.

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• Tim Novak reported that Mayor Daley's nephew, Robert Vanecko, stands to make millions in real estate deals backed by city-connected pension funds representing retirees and current city workers, including police officers. Cops are sounding off online at secondcitycop.blogspot.com:

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• Newly released 9-1-1 tapes show the confusion and frustration felt by people witnessing a huge fight this summer on the city's Southwest Side. One teenager wound up in coma. Others were seriously injured.

• The tale told by the tape reveals no shortage of calls for help, just an inexplicable lack of response.

  "Don't get me wrong, I have confidence in the police, but the 9-1-1 Center, I want nothing to do with," said Rick Kruis, injured in fight.

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• Calumet Area detectives have issued a community alert Tuesday after five incidents of armed robbery by two suspects impersonating police officers on the South Side.
  
  The two offenders approach their victims as they are walk down the street, display handguns and steal the victim's money or valuables, according to the alert. The suspects claim to be police officers.

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• Two Chicago police officers on bike patrol were injured Sunday while attempting to chase down a robbery suspect on downtown streets.
• The officers — one male and one female — suffered injuries during the chase and were taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital. The female officer suffered an asthma attack and is being held overnight for observation. The male officer was treated for minor injuries and released, Klich said.

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• Can someone explain why IAD is sending plain clothes officers to 3 different districts just to walk around and observe officers. Two IAD officers that I went to the academy with were in 011 last wednesday and thursday and were just walking around and sat outside in the court yard and then walked the parking garage. An officer approached one of them and he said they were just waiting to talk to a judge about a warrant but that was bullshit because I asked br43 and br42 and they said nobody talked to the judges. So what are they doing? This past monday I was in a southside district working special and low and behold there are the same two IAD rats walking around and I heard the girl tell the desk she was from Eqiupment and supply and they are looking to see what we needed. TOTAL B.S. This is a WARNING to all districts be on the lookout for a m/4 about 5'9, 170 lbs, short black hair and wears a blue tooth, and has tatoos on both 4arms. and the female is a f/1 5'4, maybe 110 lbs, short hair and a high pitch annoying laugh. They are up to something so be aware.

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• City officials in Chicago have agreed to pay 27,000ドル to settle a lawsuit filed by a West Side man who said police shot and killed his dog last year while chasing a suspect.
• In the lawsuit he filed last February, Calvin Hale alleged that a police officer ran into his yard during the chase and stumbled on his 10-year-old Akita, Lady. He said the officer shot the dog and then continued the chase.
• City officials have acknowledged the settlement, but declined to comment further. They admit no wrongdoing in the settlement.

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• An exclusive story in Sunday's editions of the Chicago Sun-Times reveals questions about the financial dealings of Mayor Richard M. Daley's nephew.
  
  Sun-Times reporter Tim Novak reports that Robert Vanecko stands to make millions of dollars in a new venture selling Chicago real estate. His investors, Novak reports, are pension funds representing 180,000 retired and current city workers."They received 68ドル million," Novak said.
  
  "They'll have the money until 2014 to invest in various types of real estate deals -- they've only done a couple of deals at this point. It's a very risky venture -- it's a speculative real estate investment where no one is really sure if these projects will succeed because of the neighborhoods that they're in and the projects themselves haven't been defined yet."
  
  Daley and his nephew deny any wrongdoing.

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• The Chicago Police Board on Friday officially launched its second nationwide search for the city's new police superintendent.

  As the Chicago Sun-Times reported last month, the board has hired the Police Executive Research Forum to conduct the search triggered by Mayor Daley's decision to reject all three finalists recommended by the Police Board -- insiders Charles Williams and Hiram Grau and New Yorker Thomas Belfiore -- and ordering the board to start over.

• Sources said the PERF contract took a long time to negotiate because of the thorny issue of confidentiality.

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• Mayor Daley . . . what is going on?

  • • Translation: Dana Starks, the Chicago Police Department's interim superintendent appointed by Mayor Daley -- who is still minus FBI clearance to deal with highly sensitive federal info and who claimed the FBI lost two previous clearance applications -- is at it again.

  • • The shocker: Sneed hears Starks dispatched orders Monday via e-mail to his five top deputy superintendents restraining them from talking to outside agencies without his permission!

  "What the hell is this all about?" said a top source.

  • • The buckshot: "Why in the world would Starks stop his men from performing their duties without running to him first for permission? The deputy superintendents have power over policy and their people already. They need to talk to the Cook County state's attorney's office, the U.S. attorney's office, the FBI and DEA and other federal agencies . . . and so do the police commanders under them!

  "This is madness."

  • • The downshot: The Starks e-mail stated: "Prior to anyone requesting a meeting outside the department the undersigned (Starks) will be notified. Any questions regarding policy or deployment is the responsibility of the undersigned."

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• Mayor Daley ridiculed Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson on Thursday for strutting his stuff -- and showing off his "machoism" -- by campaigning at gun shows.

  Daley said there should be a national debate about gun violence. It should be at the forefront of the presidential debate among Daley's fellow Democrats and among Republicans now consumed by the war in Iraq, he said.

• 90 million gun owners in the USA
• they own some 250 million guns
• more than 40 states have some form of Concealed Carry or shall-issue laws.

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• Five Chicago aldermen sent a letter to U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald on Thursday urging him to "investigate, indict and prosecute" former Chicago Police Lt. Jon Burge for torturing African-American criminal suspects.

  "We strongly believe that the federal prosecution of Burge and his police helpers is possible and that the statute of limitations is not a bar. Burge and all involved can be prosecuted for perjury, obstruction of justice and for ongoing conspiracy to cover up their torture scheme," wrote the aldermen -- Bob Fioretti, (2nd), Pat Dowell (3rd), Billy Ocasio (26th), Ed Smith, (28th) and Helen Shiller (46th).
  

• [Note: the federal criminal civil rights laws have a five year statute of limitations from the date of the incident, except in cases involving an intentional killing (generally not bound by the statute of limitations) and religious interference incidents (seven year statute of limitations)].

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• Marco Morales — the crooked Chicago contractor who skipped town in 1997 after he was convicted in Operation Silver Shovel — is back in custody in Mexico, authorities said today.

  Morales was arrested by Mexican authorities on a U.S. warrant for a 2006 cocaine distribution charge, said Randall Samborn, spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago.

  A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Mexico said he was in custody and the government has 60 days to file a formal extradition request with Mexico, if it has not done so already.

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• OFF TOPIC--BUT IMPORTANT.
  
  At approximately 2100 hrs tonite (19Sep)a traffic stop for a 3200 unit went wrong up on 024. A gun was pulled by a driver, the copper busted a cap at the driver who then fled into Warren Park.
  
  An 024 Sergeant requested the helicopter to aid in the search and light up the park.
  
  Two minutes later, the Zone 11 dispatcher stated "The helicopter is off tonight"
  
  What is the use of a helo if they have the day off?
  
  How many people are in the unit? Obviously not enough to man the aircraft 24/7/365. Don't they have people on call?
  
  I don't expect the media to report on [this], maybe Kass will.
  
  Copper is ok, that is all that really matters,,,even though shithead probably got away.

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• Recently in 002nd District a convicted felon, with an extensive sheet, gets arrested while driving someone else's car. As it turns out the car belongs to a female officer in 002. The watch commander takes the young officer aside, in a friendly nurturing manner [what we might expect of a good boss] and advises the young officer that it is against the Rules and Regs. of the Department to have such a close friendship with a known felon. Rather than take heed of this very good advice, the young officer has written an extensive T0-From to the Superintendent suggesting that the police department change this rule as it discriminates against black females on the Chicago Police Department because they have no one else to associate with. The young police officer is also attempting to bring an EEOC complaint against her Watch Commander.
  
  This just ain't your father's police department anymore.

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• You guys will find this fact very interesting. Five of the six deputies in the police department had to be promoted meritoriously to the rank of Lieutenant. This is the absolute truth and is very sad!

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• The state Senate on Tuesday bypassed a long-term fix for Chicago area mass-transit systems, instead passing a plan for a massive public works program that would expand gambling and offer stop-gap funding for public transportation.
  
  The move was the latest attempt by Senate President Emil Jones (D-Chicago) and Gov. Rod Blagojevich to pressure House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago) to take up the same issues in his chamber by testing the resolve of rank-and-file House members who want money for local projects.

• But Sen. James Meeks (D-Chicago) argued against expanding gambling because it is a "tax on poor people."
  
  "To save the integrity of this body, we should all vote 'no' on this bill," Meeks said.

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• I don't always agree with SCC, and I am not an apologist for SCC. But I think SCC does provide us a place to talk...to let off steam...to joke...to keep each other apprised of current events (like Mike Mette). SCC doesn't force us to come here; we come here of our own accord.
  
  I don't think SCC has ever claimed to speak for all CPD members (and I've read and re-read SCC posts from the last couple of years). From what I have read, SCC speaks for SCC, and SCC only. The main posts are SCC's. The comments contained therein aren't SCC's (unless marked by SCC's logo); they're the comments of those who choose to comment on SCC's posts.
  
  I think people (police and not) fail to distinguish between what is SCC's (the posts on the dark blue background) and what is not SCC's (comments section for each post), thereby attributing attitudes or comments to SCC which SCC never had or stated.
  
  Critical thinking should enter here.
  
  Anonymity has its merits and its faults. We have no idea whether posters here are the police or not. Those who talk about lying, cheating, stealing, dogging, hating, etc. may be police or may be trolls. Who knows?
  
  Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear.

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• Cook County taxpayers spend millions of dollars each year providing prescription drugs to thousands of people living outside the county, sometimes even paying extra to deliver the drugs to their out-of-county doorstep.

  But under a plan approved Tuesday by the County Board, that support could end Dec. 1 unless a patient's home county enters into an agreement with Cook County to reimburse it for the costs.

  And people outside the county who get drugs from the county by mail-order programs should receive a notice with their November shipment that it will be the last time they'll get a delivery from Cook County.

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• A man training to be a Chicago Police officer claims he was terminated from the Chicago Police Academy because he was Polish and "looked terrible."

  Peter J. Palka is suing the Chicago Police Department and Matthew Tobias, assistant deputy superintendent of the police academy, alleging he was kicked out of the academy this year because of his race and nationality.

  Palka was five months into his training at the academy when he went to school early on Jan. 25 for some "extra help with firearms," a lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court says.

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• A spokeswoman says Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's staff doesn't contain any more convicted felons.
  
  Last week the Chicago Sun-Times disclosed that a high-ranking Blagojevich aide named Steven Guerra spent 23 months in prison in the mid-1980s. Guerra had refused to testify before a grand jury about terrorist activities by the Puerto Rican independence movement known as FALN.
  
  Blagojevich defends the decision to make Guerra his chief of staff for community services.

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• The beat bobby who used his internet blog to lift the lid on the endless paperwork and political correctness of modern policing revealed his identity last night to announce he is quitting Britain.

  Using the pseudonym PC David Copperfield, Stuart Davidson, 36, charted his frustrations at the red tape and target-driven culture facing officers.

  His tales of unnecessary bureaucracy at the expense of catching real crooks became so popular they spawned a bestselling book and even saw him denounced in the Commons by ministers.

• Mr Davidson, who resigned from Staffordshire Police in June, said he was sick of the "madness" of British policing, adding:

  "Everyone joins the police with the aim of catching burglars, catching thieves, solving crimes.

  "But as a uniformed officer available for deployment I would spend over half of my time writing in the office.

  "Eighty per cent of what I did was a waste of time. There comes a point where you think, 'This isn't really why I joined'."

• The Home Office is reeling from claims in an official report last week that the target culture prevents police doing their jobs.

  Sir Ronnie Flanagan, Chief Inspector of Constabulary, said officers bogged down by bureaucracy tended to "over-record and under-deliver" for fear of being accused of missing something.

  He warned that they are so busy chasing targets, which can be achieved by pursuing minor crimes, that they do not always act in the "public interest".

  Mr Davidson, who was an officer in Burton-on-Trent for four years, started writing The Policeman's Blog three years ago. It received more than 1.5million hits.

  In it he wrote: "Around 50 per cent of my job is clerical, 40 per cent of it is social work and 10 per cent is trying to catch criminals."

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• A Chicago police officer was injured while making an arrest that turned into a violent confrontation at a pharmacy in the Lincoln Park neighborhood.
  
  Police say a man and woman entered the CVS in the 1700 block of North Sheffield Avenue and allegedly began shoplifting around 10:30 Monday morning. The uniformed officer chased the woman outside where she struggled to arrest her. The man ran away with CVS employees chasing him. The officer was stabbed in the hand, but managed to call for help. Police arrested both suspects. They also checked a car parked outside the pharmacy. It's the car the two suspects drove to the store before the incident.

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• MIAMI - Patrol officers here will have the option of carrying assault rifles as they try to combat the rise in the use of similar weapons by criminals, the city’s police chief said Sunday.

  The chief, John F. Timoney, approved the policy last week, before a Miami-Dade police officer was killed on Thursday in a shootout with a man wielding an assault rifle.

  "This is something we do not do with any relish," Chief Timoney said. "We do this reluctantly."

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• A man who claims he had his mouth and feet duct-taped and was beaten and kicked by three Chicago police officers earlier this year is suing the unknown officers for more than 2ドル million.
• Marcelo Gonzalez claims in a federal lawsuit filed Monday that he was grabbed from his car and taken at gunpoint by the officers when he arrived at an apartment building at 1646 N. Bosworth Ave. on March 9.
• Tamira Smyth, the resident of the apartment where the officers took Gonzalez, had already been held in the apartment by police for "several hours" when Gonzalez arrived, the suit said. The suit did not say why police may have been looking for Gonzalez, what was his relationship with Smyth or the purpose of his visit to the apartment building.

• A man who died in police custody last year was strangled by police, a lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court Monday claims.
• Jaime Galvan was arrested about 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 9, 2006. About two hours after his arrest, Galvan was taken from the Austin Police District to a holding cell at Harrison Area headquarters at 3340 W. Fillmore St., according to the suit.
• At approximately 11:59 p.m., Galvan was found "unresponsive and deceased in his holding cell, with his body handcuffed to the prisoner rail," the suit says. According to the suit, "autopsy reports reveal that Jaime Galvan's body contained injuries and marks consistent with having been strangled."

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• We don't eat doughnuts with anything near "regularly" - that seemed a little too cutely stereotypical.
  
• We should have guessed someone would try to dissect us with a computer program. We'll continue to not admit to being male or female; white, black, brown or other; multiple persons or multiple personalities
• Though we'd like to take credit for the "Mope-rah" label affixed to Mary Mitchell, it was a reader of ours who came up with it - we just gave it front page play. And let's face it, if the shoe fits...she kind of earns it every time she writes
  
• We're not sure we hate all the people he lists - but we do have a total and complete lack of respect for many of them. Most of them we wouldn't compare to prostitutes as that would be an insult to the girls who actually work for a living. But hate?
• He missed our Blackhawks infatuation, but the less said about that, the better
• The Hampton sign issue, Mr. Janssen credits us with mobilizing officers and the national press into covering the issue. In our letter, we called it a group effort that we played a role in - we had a blog to use; we made contact with NYPD Rant and did a number of combined posts; John Northern and a number of others were very active on the site keeping everyone abreast of developments. We don't want anyone thinking we took undue credit for getting the issue killed in committee. Lots of people helped and we said so
  
• The descriptions of some of our fellow bloggers as "less successful imitators" is his wording, not ours. We know how much effort it takes to put this together and it's only a hobby for us. We wouldn't presume to know what other people have going on in their lives that might preclude them from being as prolific as we are lucky enough to be.

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• Why aren't we getting newer equipment?
  Is it really too much to ask? I mean
  This is supposed to be the "most advanced"
  Site (dept) in the country! And yet we
  Still have problems! Is L.E.A.D.S. ever
  Up?
• Posted by: Reed M. Downn

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• SCC - this needs to be its own thread!
  
  Supreme Bitch aldercreature Dixon is using her recently-obtained aldermaniac powers to exert improper authority over rank and file district personnel in 010 (and I'm sure soon same in 011)
  
  She personally called GED Starks woofing about a BLACK 20-year veteran copper (DW) who is a bonafide worker, for not kissing her ass when she snapped her fingers. She DEMANDED that he be removed from the beat he's worked for years and has established a great rep and high levels of cooperation and appreciation from the good citizens of his beat.
  
  Hibbitty dibbitty Dana (seeing the negative connotations of messing with hard-working cops might have) called High-Yella Charlie W who immediately called DC Cuello in 010 and ordered her to launch DW to the hispanic side of the district. She replaced him with possibly one of the most useless empty uniforms on the job.
  
  CAPS is supposedly all about building partnerships, establishing rapport with the community and reducing crime. Here is a hard working ex-tac veteran who chooses to step up to do police work, only to be kicked in the teeth by his OWN sworn members at the request of some PMS-ing "it's MY time to be a shot caller" asshole.
  
  She did not consult with the Beat Facilitators, DAC committee members or anyone who lives on the beat (not the beat Dixon lives on BTW) and exerted possibly illegal influence over his failure to bow and scrape in her royal presence.
  
  Remember, there has been NO CR#, no allegations of wrongdoing, no actual discipline, just harassment and mistreatment. Step-N-Fetchit Charlie buckled like a house of cards and demanded that Cuello just can him and, I'm sorry to say, she went along with the whole thing. Her credibility has been severly damaged by this.
  
  Telling Williams to go fuck himself would have meant her going back to Lt. rank and pay but would have been worth millions in respect and admiration from her troops.
  
  Remember the old cop movies where some guy was getting pinched and yelled "I'll have your badge for this!"? You KNEW it wasn't gonna happen cuz what kind of police department would you have if cops could be so easily harassed or demoted/fired? So now this Mary Mitchell wanabe picks up the phone and gets her hatchetmen to shit all over a working cop for ruffling her feathers. She's not even in office a year and already throws her "authority" around like she was King Richard J. himself.
  
  Taking negative job action for purely political reasons is ILLEGAL, right??? Fitz, are you listening? How about the citizens of 1014? Why are they deprived of the stellsr service of this officer because of someone who doesn't even live on that beat, alderman or not?
  
  Morale is at an all-time low from shit like this. I hope he files some kind of lawsuit or grievance or complaint. The 2 pipms who catered to this bimbo's wishes and threw Danny under the bus (oh, yeah.....they're BOTH still candidates for the SUPT spot) should be ashamed and immediately removed from their exempt positions.
  
  Mike Mette was arrested for throwing a punch to defend himself. Danny doesn't get the ability to even throw a punch, having his career torpedoed by higher-ups to kiss the ass of a freshman alderidiot.
  
  PLEASE CONSIDER MAKING THIS IT'S OWN THREAD. THIS CONDUCT IS ILLEGAL AND UNFAIR AND HAS TO STOP!

• Dixon is rapidly making a royal pain in the ass of herself. We've heard she expects 24-7 protection at her house, which doubles as her office. We've heard she wants coppers to run political errands for her people, which is a violation of we don't know how many rules. We've even heard a number of stories of her throwing her weight around at the 010 District desk, demanding all sorts of crap and favors.
• Starks stepped out of the way of this freight train and left the dirty work to Charlie Williams, who as has been noted before, has much to answer for himself after mishandling the Jefferson Tap incident among other things
• Cuello collapsed like the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis. Wow.

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• Sneed's keeping tabs: At last peek, the FBI was still in the process of determining whether interim Chicago Police Supt. Dana Starks will be granted FBI security clearance to share classified info dealing with the FBI, CIA and Homeland Security should a terrorist threat occur on his watch. The FBI shot down claims they misplaced or lost the clearance forms Starks claims he submitted twice before. The forms were submitted more than a month ago and are still being studied. Stay tuned.

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• The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association and the Chicago Federation of Musicians reached a tentative agreement Saturday on a new contract.

  The multiyear agreement still must be approved by orchestra members and the CSO's board of trustees.

  Both parties have agreed not to release details of the tentative agreement until it is ratified, expected by Thursday. The old contract expires at midnight tonight.

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• one ring (wedding band type) with no stone
• one government issued ID
• prescription eye glasses
• prescription medications
• shoelaces and belts
• any court papers or inventory slips
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• A man was shot by an off-duty police officer Saturday morning after he allegedly broke into the officer’s home on the Southwest Side near Midway International Airport.

  The Chicago police officer and his wife were sleeping in their home in the 6000 block of South Austin Boulevard when the officer heard a noise and went to investigate, police News Affairs Assistant Director Pat Camden said.

  The off-duty officer saw the offender, who apparently entered the home through the back door, and was in the process of arresting the suspect when the offender was shot, Camden said.

• off topic...man shot allegedly breaking into off duty cop's house..(allegedly) fuck you chicago news media...the ass was in a home in the middle of the night..he did not live there..he did not have family there.he was shot in the home...so what makes you think it was alleged that he broke into the house...i guess the shithead's lawyer will say..the cop put that house on me..

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• Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is calling for the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. combat brigades from Iraq, with the pullout being completed by the end of next year.

  ''Let me be clear: There is no military solution in Iraq and there never was,'' Obama said in excerpts of the speech provided to The Associated Press.

• The leader of al-Qaida in Iraq offered money for the murder of a Swedish cartoonist who recently produced images deemed insulting to Islam, according to a statement carried by Islamist Web sites Saturday.

  In the half hour audio file entitled ''They plotted yet God too was plotting,'' Abu Omar al-Baghdadi also promised a new offensive in Iraq during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

  On Aug. 19, the Swedish newspaper Nerikes Allehanda published a cartoon by Lars Vilks that depicted the Prophet Muhammad with a dog's body.

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• PHILADELPHIA - The city's embattled police chief, acknowledging that police alone cannot quell a run of deadly violence, has called on 10,000 black men to patrol the streets to reduce crime.

  Sylvester Johnson, who is black, says black men have a duty to protect more vulnerable residents. He wants each volunteer to pledge to work three hours a day for at least 90 days.

  "It's time for African-American men to stand up," Johnson told the Philadelphia Daily News, which first reported the story Wednesday. "We have an obligation to protect our women, our children and our elderly. We're going to put men on the street. We're going to train them in conflict resolution."

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