For the Reading Disabled

We apologize while we engage in a bit of gratuitous troll baiting. It's a noble pastime here at SCC, usually isolated to the comments sections of back and forth banter, but sometimes, it makes the front page.

Incident #1:

• After all our people did for her, she's willing to disregard the established precedent of the contract and strip away 662 officers' presumption of innocence and drag them through the shit.
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  This comment really surprises me, SCC. The woman had her husband & mother murdered in their own home! "all our people did for her" was what they should have done for anyone in that situation...in other words, they did their jobs! That doesn't merit blanket pro-police rulings from her bench.

That's right - the CPD did their jobs. And if that job happened to be supporting the Feebs, they did it well. At no point did we advocate "blanket pro-police rulings" from any judge, least of all her. But maybe, just maybe, the fact that a psycho located her home by whatever means he did, might make her slightly aware of the dangers posed by being a part of the criminal justice system - be it a judge, attorney or police officer. And to have officers names distributed in public wily-nily for merely having unsubstantiated complaints lodged against them is bad precedent no matter what. (By the way, if the trolls haven't noticed, threats and wishes of harm against Federal judges are being routinely deleted - knock it off)

Incident #2:

• SCC, You are so far off the mark it isn't even funny. It's more than apparent you know one if not all of the officers involved personally. You cherry pick what is seen in the video. What is shown;1) one of the officers sweeping the balls off the pool table. That's provocation.
  
  Provocation? Where? There is no sound. You (and we) have NO idea what was said that might have provoked anyone in that bar. Removing the balls might be a response - or it might be a smart move to remove possible weapons. We don't know! That's the point.
  
  2) The Sgt is seen escorting Powers back into the bar.Sgt exits and grabs one off the plaintiffs by the throat slamming him against the wall. AT NO TIME WAS THE SGT BEING PROVOKED.
  
  Again, no sound = no knowledge of a provocation. For all we know, the guy outside was calling for reinforcements. This is a simple "he-said, he-said" in any other jurisdiction.
  
  3)If Powers was so distraught and had to be disarmed why would his supervisor allow him to return to the bar?
  
  WE DON'T KNOW!! How many times do we have to repeat it? And unless the Sergeant was going to throw Powers in handcuffs, how would you propose he stop him? OC? Taser? Slap him around?
  
  4)Are you as a Chicago Police Officer per GO allowed to consume Alcohol while armed& off -duty? Then plead mutal combatants when engaged in an altercation?
  
  As far as we know, there is no General Order. There are the Rules and Regulations that state an officer shall not be intoxicated in public, nor consume any alcoholic beverages in uniform. Someone who actually passed a promotional exam can let us know if we're mistaken.
  
  The tragedy is 3 POs from the 012th district were fired for doing their job meanwhile the officers who instigated this situation remain on the payroll.
  
  We're still trying to track down this rumor. How can these guys under criminal charges, and the SOS guys, and Abbate still be on the job or suspended without pay with no charges filed before the Police Board yet, and somehow, in under 4 months since this story broke, three people from 012 lost their jobs over this? We can't find anyone who knows who these 3 people are, what these 3 people did and how these 3 people got fired and nothing has made the papers. What's up with that?