Chicago Spends Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars On Police Misconduct Cases.

We can only try to doc­u­ment a few of the atroc­i­ties they com­mit against peo­ple of col­or, lie about them in sworn state­ments and when found to be lying there are no con­se­quences to them for their actions.>
Everyone knows that when you write a state­ment it ought to be a state­ment of fact as to the best of one’s rec­ol­lec­tion. Police offi­cers do not have the right to lie to incrim­i­nate an inno­cent per­son. Police and pros­e­cu­tors are duty bound by law to turn over excul­pa­to­ry evi­dence to defen­dants coun­sel, how­ev­er, police and pros­e­cu­tors sum­mar­i­ly lie and destroy evi­dence they [know] is exculpatory.
Prosecutors sum­mar­i­ly refuse to pros­e­cute police even when they are caught lying under oath in court, noth­ing is done so they move on to the next series of lies to con­vict peo­ple they do not like.
On the oth­er hand, their state­ments which ought to depict sequen­tial­ly their encoun­ters with mem­bers of the pub­lic are arbi­trar­i­ly rid­dled with lies and incon­sis­ten­cies- again with­out con­se­quence to them.

HERE IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE

Chicago police accused of wrongfully raiding another home

A Black fam­i­ly is suing the Chicago police depart­ment for alleged­ly break­ing down their door and point­ing guns at two chil­dren before attempt­ing to cov­er up that they had no evi­dence for the raid, The Associated Press report­ed Wednesday. The Winters fam­i­ly filed the law­suit Tuesday for police wrong­ful­ly raid­ing their home, which has report­ed­ly become a fre­quent occur­rence for peo­ple of col­or in the city.
On the night of Aug. 7, 2019, the chil­dren, two girls aged 4 and 9, were report­ed­ly sit­ting on the bed when police charged in the room with­out warn­ing or a war­rant. Police point­ed their guns at the sis­ters’ father, Steven Winters, whose back was lat­er knelt on by an offi­cer with a gun to the back of his head. Another offi­cer charged into the girls’ room and point­ed a flash­light and a gun at them, while a third offi­cer point­ed a gun at the chil­dren’s sleep­ing grandfather.

The inci­dent report­ed­ly left the chil­dren with “last­ing trau­ma … in the form of night­mares, bed-wet­ting, trou­ble sleep­ing, decreased appetite, cry­ing fits and fear and dis­trust of police,” accord­ing to the AP. The police depart­ment report­ed­ly tried to cov­er up the inci­dent by claim­ing they saw and heard a sus­pect run into the apart­ment, but these claims were proven false by the body cam­era footage that Al Hofeld Jr., the fam­i­ly’s attor­ney, acquired through an open records request. The city has yet to release body­cam footage of the inci­dent. “They do not show any­one enter­ing or exit­ing plain­tiffs’ build­ing or plain­tiffs’ apart­ment,” the law­suit said accord­ing to the AP. “Officers did not find any sign that any sus­pect had entered. Officers did not arrest any­one. The ter­ror and stress to this inno­cent fam­i­ly were all for naught. ”

However, this is not the first inci­dent where police used exces­sive force dur­ing a botched raid. Chicago has report­ed­ly been plagued with false raids against peo­ple of col­or. In February 2019, a wom­an’s home was wrong­ful­ly raid­ed and she was hand­cuffed naked for 30 min­utes. Police lat­er dis­cov­ered they had the wrong home and attempt­ed to pre­vent the release of the body cam footage. The city has report­ed­ly spent hun­dreds of mil­lions of dol­lars on police mis­con­duct cas­es. The AP noted.