shame shame on the Chicago Police Department
there needs to be a federal investigation into what really happened here
Are members of the CPD involved in the distribution of heroin on the west side?
has requested Kim Foxx investigate this allegation of favoritism
"the person that made this decision not to impound the vehicle is going to be punished"
"it wouldn't make sense to impound the vehicle now because ...."
Top cop says no evidence of misconduct in decision not to impound car of high-ranking chief after niece stopped in drug arrest, the implication being that clout was a factor
“Of course I wasn’t on the scene making any of these decisions,” Supt. David Brown said at a news conference.
By David Struett@dstru312 Feb 24, 2022, 2:05pm CST/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/70546071/CPD_3.0.jpg)
Chicago Police Department Supt. David Brown speaks at a news conference Thursday Feb. 24, 2022, at Public Safety Headquarters. Brian Rich / Sun-Times
Pressed on whether a high-ranking police chief got favorable treatment, Chicago Police Supt. David Brown distanced himself from the case Thursday and said he “wasn’t on the scene” when someone decided not to impound the chief’s car when her niece and a boyfriend were stopped and heroin was found.
Cars are usually impounded during such arrests so they can be searched for guns and drugs. That was not done when officers pulled over a Lexus belonging to internal affairs chief Yolanda Talley on Feb. 1.
Talley’s niece was driving the car and a man in the passenger seat was charged with possession of 42 grams of heroin. Officers drove the Lexus back to the block where the arrest took place, and the keys were returned to her niece, a source has said.
Brown said he hasn’t seen any evidence of misconduct but he declined to answer questions, saying the matter was being investigated by the city’s inspector general.
Asked whether he or anyone in his command staff was involved in decisions that night, Brown replied, “Of course I wasn’t on the scene making any of these decisions.
“The officers made those decisions,” he said. “And I have yet to see anything to show me that — I have mentioned in my comments that I will not go further on — that there was any misconduct.”
But a source familiar with the incident said the decision to return Talley’s Lexus to her niece wasn’t made on the scene.
After the stop, the source said the car was taken to the police department’s Homan Square facility on the West Side. A decision was eventually made not to impound the car following conversations between high-ranking police officials, the source said.
Officers stopped Talley’s niece in the 500 block of North St. Louis Avenue. Police said they saw a passenger, Kenneth Miles, try to ditch 84 packets of heroin valued at $6,300.
Miles was arrested on drug charges. But Talley’s niece was let go because there wasn’t clear evidence linking her to the heroin, a police source said. Talley’s niece told the officers, “My auntie’s probably your boss,” according to a source.
The officers involved in the arrest were later taken off the street for training with no explanation. The source called the move an apparent “punishment.”
A high-ranking police official said the move to pull the officers off the street could have only come from Brown, First Deputy Supt. Eric Carter or Chief Ernest Cato.
During his news conference, Brown complained about the “gossip and innuendo” surrounding the case.
“I think even your profession has to give pause to rumor and innuendo before the facts are available,” Brown told a Sun-Times reporter. “I mean, I’m sure you have opinions your question was based on, based on source’s opinions.
“But opinions are not facts,” he added. ”You’re entitled to your opinion about what may or may not have happened. But the facts will be revealed when this investigation is completed.”
He said the investigation is being conducted by the inspector general because “we need an independent third party to look at all the facts so we can all have assurance that it was reviewed in an independent way by the inspector general.
“We’ll have further discussion once” the investigation is finished, he promised.
Contributing: Tom Schuba, Frank Main and Matthew Hendrickson
WTF IS GOING ON WITH THE CHICAGO POLICE DEPT?
This is gonna be big. Bosses will try to scapegoat the coppers.
ReplyDeleteAny other blue shirt would have been stripped, car impounded and fired but since its a black female boss, they do nothing
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DeleteNo evidence of misconduct? How about not following protocols established in state statutes? Used to be called Article 36. Head of IAD, promoted twice in last 2 years, with conformity to uniform standards if you were a street whore. Merit promoted? Gee, maybe? And the two officers making the stop, and the arrest, benched? Why? And all those police oversight agencies you have falling over each other and the case is being investigated by the Inspector General? And who is that these days? Oh that's right Ferguson resigned. And there's an interim one appointed? And how is it he's handling an official police investigation and when are the answers as to why those arresting officers going to be made public. Chicago is keenly aware of your status Mr. Superintendent. We are aware you're a commuter administrator who still resides in Dallas. And you Ms. Mayor, how much of your campaign focused on "shining a light" on Chicago, while you hide under the covers and throw the taxpayer's money at ghetto lottery plaintiffs and federal taxpayer dollars out to selected recipients like you're Santa Claus? It was a mistake electing you, the lesser of 2 perceived bad choices when you ran against Preckwinkle. You made downtown look like the plywood section of Home Depot over the past few summers, and along with your nemesis in the county, let everyone responsilble go. And now nobody wants to go downtown anymore. More than 80 police officers are detailed to watch your home while the department is more than 1500 officers short. Pardon my French, Ms. Mayor, but you effed up. And during the most violent days downtown in the summer of 2020, you told our president to "get fucked" and now beg the demented one in the oval office for help. We made a bad choice with you, one we won't make again. Lets see if this makes it to the blog.
ReplyDeleteCell phone records will get these people fired.
ReplyDeleteCarpet bagger mayor and Sup. 2 things need to happen. The new mayor needs to be from Chicago, live in the city, went to school in the city and the new Sup needs to be from the rank of the CPD.
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