Let's not forget about the assassination of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark - December 4, 1969 by the CPD...or the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre...or the Haymarket Tragedy in 1886...
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> Not any more, true. Not so long ago, yes.
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> Btw you may have heard that the US attorney just indicted torture cop Cmder Jon Burge, whose "aggressive interrogation techniques" sends over a hundred people to jail and several to death row, and holds the rare distinction of being, along with his #2, the only ranking cop ever fired for abuse of suspects. He was indicted for perjury because he lied about his misconduct ins deposition in a civil suit; he thought he was safe because the Statute of Limitations had run on the underlying crimes. Normally the feds don't bother to go after you for perjury in a civil suit, but Burge is special. Look him up.
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> Then there was Bill Hanrahan, Chief of Detectives, multiply decorated, respected, powerful -- he went down because he was running a jewel theft operation, hitting the cars and display cases of salesmen for expensive watches and the like.
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> I sent aside the normal cops who steal drugs and drug money from dealers. Shall we say say if they bust a dealer with 30 keys and $250K, about 27 keys and $200K, maybe, are going to show up in the evidence room, which is itself pretty leaky. This is the CPD, the feds are honest and so, far as I know, are the State Police.
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> In addition, of course. if you want a contract or permit to, for example, expand your hospital, you gotta pay to play. That's why the US Attorney has been keeping so busy sending our governors to the slammer (former one's in jail for using the state as a racketeering enterprise, current one is going to be going down) and also their cronies. Da Mare's cronies too, but even Pat Fitzgerald (the US Atty) isn't going to nail Da Mare. He's too smart and careful. And not greedy. All he cares about is power.
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> Illinois and Louisiana compete for the title of the crookedest state in the Union. Some years ago, when KKK-Nazi lunatic David Duke captured the Louisiana GOP gubernatorial nomination, there were bumper stickers for his opponent, Edwin (?) Edwards, saying: Vote For The Crook, Here of course you don't have the choice not to vote for a crook unless you vote Green, which is sort of pointless. Last election I voted for Obama, whom I actually think is not a crook, and the Democrat for State's Attorney, cause in my work who's the SA actually matters, and otherwise straight Green.
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