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Title: Code Of Silence Took Ugly Turn In Chicago Police Corruption Case
Source:
Mint Press News/The Intercept
URL Source: http://www.mintpressnews.com/code-o ... police-corruption-case/221220/
Published: Oct 7, 2016
Author: teleSUR
Post Date: 2016-10-07 15:11:36 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 1852
Comments: 11
The Intercept published a massive four-part investigation exposing corruption and cover-up within the Chicago Police Department.
The Chicago Police Department fiercely covered up officer misconduct after it was exposed by two cops working with the FBI, according to a four-part investigation published by The Intercept on Thursday.
A team of officers working in public housing developments in the South Side would bribe drug dealers to keep them out of jail and sabotage the rival gang, the whistleblowers told The Intercept.
They were “major players” in the drug dealing scene in the South Side, and the ringleader, Sergeant Ronald Watts, may have been involved in the death of two dealers. Many cops were complicit, The Intercept reported.
“The payoffs were known on the street as the ‘Watts tax,’” wrote The Intercept.
“If a dealer paid the tax, his operation was protected from police interference. Watts, according to (Ernie) Brown (former head of the public housing development), was protecting dealers allied with him, while targeting the competition and redirecting seized drugs to his own dope lines.”
When the whistleblower officers, Shannon Spalding and Danny Echeverria, tried to initiate a “complaint register” investigation against the department, the head of internal affairs, Chief Juan Rivera, repeatedly refused and instead outed them.
Rather than punish the cops involved, the department demoted and abused the whistleblowers. They were verbally threatened and Spalding even received excrement one day in her mailbox. When they sued over the retaliation, the department settled with US $2 million to keep the case hushed. The department kept its “code of silence” intact—but tried to eliminate the words from the proceedings on the case.
“The code of silence is only silent to the outside world,” The Intercept quoted Spalding as saying. “For cops, it’s a constant ringing in your ears from the day you enter the academy to the day you retire.”
Intercept story Part 1 : Operation Smoke and Mirrors: In the Chicago Police Department, If the Bosses Say It Didn’t Happen, It Didn’t Happen
Part 2: Operation Brass Tax: Corrupt Chicago Police Were Taxing Drug Dealers and Targeting Their Rivals
Part 3: House of Cards: How the Chicago Police Department Covered Up for a Gang of Criminal Cops
Part 4: Watch Your Back: Chicago Police Bosses Targeted Cops Who Exposed Corruption
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#1. To: Gatlin, misterwhite, Roscoe, nolu chan (#0) (Edited)
“If a dealer paid the tax, his operation was protected from police interference. Watts, according to (Ernie) Brown (former head of the public housing development), was protecting dealers allied with him, while targeting the competition and redirecting seized drugs to his own dope lines.”
There's your War on Drugs.
Well done, LE! < /sarcasm >
Rather than punish the cops involved, the department demoted and abused the whistleblowers. They were verbally threatened and Spalding even received excrement one day in her mailbox.
Is this how you think honest police who blow the whistle on in-house corruption should be treated?
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
#2. To: Deckard (#1)
Rodrigo Duterte has the right idea.
#3. To: Roscoe (#2)
Rodrigo Duterte has the right idea.
Of course you do.
That really isn't the topic of this article, maybe you have an opinion about the rampant corruption by cops who protect drug gangs operating in Chicago with the apparent blessing of the higher-ups within the department.
Yeah - I know, they were just "doing their jobs".
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
#4. To: Deckard (#3)
The War on Drugs needs an escalation. That flew right over your drug-addled head.
#5. To: Roscoe (#2)
Rodrigo Duterte has the right idea.
Philippine President Duterte Challenges Donald Trump To A Fistfight
A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.
#6. To: Deckard, misterwhite, Roscoe, nolu chan (#1)
I never have time to read your superabundant amount of agenda driven spam.
Furthermore, I have no reason to place faith in an “investigation by The Intercept.”
In the interest of saving time I ask that you link directly to the federal charge sheet for the “corruption and cover-up within the Chicago Police Department” and show the trial date.
Thank you.
#7. To: ConservingFreedom (#5)
As long as there's no Balisongs.
#8. To: Roscoe (#7)
"As long as there's no Balisongs."
What's wrong with a little singing:
#9. To: Roscoe (#2)
"Rodrigo Duterte has the right idea."
Six words you don't hear in the Philippines: "The War on Drugs isn't working".
#10. To: Deckard (#0)
A team of officers working in public housing developments in the South Side would bribe drug dealers to keep them out of jail and sabotage the rival gang, the whistleblowers told The Intercept.
There is one truly screwed up claim.
A team of officers in public housing developments in the South Side would bribe drug dealers
The officers gave money or something of worth to the drug dealers.
to keep them out of jail and sabotage the rival gang
Because bribing the drug dealers will accomplish that.
the whistleblowers told The Intercept.
Some anonymous idiot assertedly told another idiot who published it.
The author should buy a dictionary.
#11. To: misterwhite (#9)
Six words you don't hear in the Philippines: "The War on Drugs isn't working".
I suspect even the resident expats are abstaining from the shabu. It's "A Dangerous Life" in the Philippines nowadays.
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