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If you find these corruption allegations hard to believe, I lived on the South Side of Chicago in the late 90s, and cops there expected to eat for free wherever
by senderista 3y ago
If you find these corruption allegations hard to believe, I lived on the South Side of Chicago in the late 90s, and cops there expected to eat for free wherever they went and blew through stop signs and red lights like they weren't even there. (I have never seen this kind of police behavior anywhere else I've lived, which includes downtown Seattle.)
Oh, and I had a detective tell me once (after they'd found the guy who stole my laptop) not to worry because they had ways of making people talk. Shortly afterward I found out that detectives in that precinct had been sticking unloaded shotgun muzzles into suspects' mouths and pulling the trigger. I declined to press charges after I learned that.
- chaps 3y agoCan you share more on the shotgun stuff? Was that recently?
- 1123581321 3y agoThere was a famous case about their confessions obtained through torture. https://chicagotorture.org/reparations/history/ https://chicagotorture.org/reparations/history/ That link doesn't mention the guns in mouths, but I remember that technique from at least one article about those Chicago police.
- chaps 3y agoThanks. I'm familiar with the Burge case, just didn't know shotguns were involved. Vile.
- NullPrefix 3y agoisn't that normal behavior for law enforcement?
- renewiltord 3y agoThat happens in San Francisco too. Back in the day when someone tried to negotiate with the union, a bomb was found in the city with an implied threat.
- sokka_h2otribe 3y agoNo implied threat- they bombed the mayors office
- mike_d 3y ago> I declined to press charges after I learned that. You were the district attorney at the time this was happening? Why didn't you do more to stop it?
- KingMob 3y agoDon't be obtuse. You know they meant they declined to cooperate should the DA pursue charges, and that "decline to press charges" is a popular phrase, if not technically correct. (And if not, you should.)
- School-Cotton 3y ago“Press charges” is exactly correct. It literally means a civilian advocating for charges to be filed. (The actual filing of charges is of course something only the state can do).
- 0x262d 3y agoChicago is also where this was happening: https://theappeal.org/the-lab/explainers/chicago-police-torture-explained/ https://theappeal.org/the-lab/explainers/chicago-police-tort... of course, similar things happen pretty much everywhere else, but usually not so egregiously.