CPD at Fault?
- A lawsuit claims Chicago police misidentified a badly beaten man, leading to the wrong family deciding to take him off life support earlier this year.
The lawsuit was filed in Cook County this week by both the family of Elisha Brittman and the family who were wrongly told he was their relative. It contends police failed to use fingerprints to positively identify Brittman, instead relying only on photos to misidentify him as Alfonso Bennett.
We've been told by people in the know that Momma identified him via photos.
- Brooks said her family was repeatedly told by hospital staff that they didn't recognize Bennett because they were in denial. Eventually, though, the family agreed to take him off life support on the advice of doctors and place him in hospice care.
Brooks said the family was with him when he died three days later. After they made funeral arrangements, Brooks said Alfonso Bennett walked through his sister’s front door. In the meantime, the man who died was identified at the morgue through fingerprints as Brittman.
Brooks said both families are angry that police did not do more.
Well, when family members identify a subject, the police usually take them at their word. After all, they know him - we usually don't. The police aren't going to waste time on fingerprints when there's a positive ID by the family and he's on life support. Welcome to policing-on-the-cheap - exactly how Shortshanks and Rahm wanted it for years.
The family was soooo sure it wasn't him, they signed papers to take him off life support. Then, when it turns out THEY made the mistake, suddenly it's the police's fault for taking them at their word identifying a loved one.
Amazing how any sort of responsibility falls on everyone EXCEPT the family.who unplugged him.
The family was soooo sure it wasn't him, they signed papers to take him off life support. Then, when it turns out THEY made the mistake, suddenly it's the police's fault for taking them at their word identifying a loved one.
Amazing how any sort of responsibility falls on everyone EXCEPT the family.who unplugged him.
Labels: dumb ideas, silly people
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
69 Comments:
Nobody called "Plugs" Biden?
The cops dropped the ball on this one...Fingerprints should have been taken if the persons face was beat to hell and the hospital had him as John Doe .. It’s not hard to take fingerprints, submit them, have them examined then hopefully identified. At least the effort would have been made.
He was either an unknown victim or a found person...either way he should have been fingerprinted at the hospital.
Poleeces fault; where is my settlement check at
When you have a bunch of kids you can't remember them all.
Its always everyone elses fault society allows them to use that excuse for everything
Responsibility is like kryptonite to Liberals/democrats!
They dont care about family or pulling the "plug". all they care about is the "payout"! Funny, an normal family would be grieving but nooo..this family already has a lawyer and as always blame CPD. Another Ghetto lottery has been played.
lookin for dat ghetto lottery even when there was no drawing
When people can collect on BS lawsuits you can expect more of the same. As my lawyer explained to me " a settlement is always better than going to trial where the outcome is left to a jury" The lawyers representing both sides collect and the citizens who pay taxes lose. Walmart was smart enough to fight all lawsuits and now most bottom feeding lawyers are smart enough to advise agents suing them. To bad the city didn't have lawyers smart enough to see what always settling gets you in the end. Perhaps they don't care they get paid and don't have to be talented enough to win even when BS is obvious.
That musta been a wtf moment when the supposed dead guy walked in sis's front door.
"After they made funeral arrangements, Brooks said Alfonso Bennett walked through his sister’s front door."
...Loordy, Loordy, Loordy
Funny how the grieving family wants button to do with him when he’s a bum on the street-but now that dollar signs appear, he’s a loving part of this strong-hold family...
Sound like hospital should pony up.
Make sure they send the bill to the right family so they can pay the bill.
Too bad we dont take dna from arrestee...
The Ghetto lottery at its finest, I wonder if LightGroot will blame CPD?
LOL LOL LOL LOL! sorry the last one was probably over the top
He dies three days after being taken off life support? And somehow it the polices fault? What a F.U.ed world we live in!
What about the Doctors, Nurses, and Hospital Administrators?
I don't think Special Ed or a patrolman pulled the plug on the poor man. Someone at the Hospital was responsible for getting the family permissions and filling out the paperwork. Why aren't they held responsible? They have nice deep pockets too.
Of course they are sueing remember BLM. Even naked druggies POS.
Any anger towards the people that best the snot out of this guy?
Thanks for showing up Alfonso.
No one cared enough about the deadly departed to report him missing?
But the CPD did identify.
So, sorry to say but dead is dead! What is the real families argument, he would have lived had they made the decisions? Give me a break, another case of $$$$$ is the object A/K/A the ghetto lottery. Take this case and throw it the hell out of court! It's ridiculous!
I am a little confused! Can anybody show me the statute or other legislation that requires the police to identify a patient in the hospital? How about the real family, had they reported him as missing? Even if they did why would the police check the guy who was identified (wrongly) by his family...They wouldn't, except in bizarre world A/K/A Chicago!
Well here's something for the AAAHOLES in springfield to do, they can pass another law that requires police to identify people and folks...LOL, Chicago, cook county, Illinois...ALL jokes and really bad ones at that!
How does a family sit with a man who is about to die (a family member) and not recognize him? Then blame CPD and the hospital? Over the course of three days, the man who was living, had never contacted anyone in his family? I'll bet he had a cell phone.
The family of the man who died should sue the family who misidentified the victim and took him off life support.
And, how does the man who lived, feel about his family taking him off life support?
And now CPD is doing a death investigation? Sounds like a Homicide to me! Anything to crunch the numbers down, I guess.
That, Ladies and Gentlemen, is a clusterfuck smothered in CPD special sauce!
As the old saying goes...trust but verify
Dont worry we will pay for it....
Well if the living brother would have answered his fucking texts ...
Accountability begins and ends with CPD.
Nobody else is liable or accountable for their actions.
Cops always at fault, for everything.
Wrong! This is unacceptable. There is no excuse when it comes to a victim who is incapacitated and cannot speak for himself. Fingerprinting is a must. Family members can do a tentative I.D, but the identity is confirmed through fingerprints. These days family member attempt to identify individuals by clothing and the cellular that he was carrying. They are quick to call the Area or walk up to a detective and describe what the individual was last seen wearing. These are detectives. They should know better.
Why would you identify a badly beaten body by a mugshot? Which supervisor led that investigation? He or she should be sent back to patrol?
they want to get involved in the ghetto lottery
Whoops
Sorry, no ghetto lottery for U2
Consider the man's true family. The police and the hospital took the word of people who said that the injured man did not look like their familiy member but who were badgered into accepting responsibility for end of life decisions (and would have been saddled with the funeral expenses, too). The man's true family had no say in the decisions, were not there to comfort him in his final hours, and might have never known what happened to their loved one who came close to being buried (or cremated) without his true identity ever being discovered. Someone screwed up and it was not the family who is grieving the loss of a loved one. A civil suit is the only mechanism we have to make sure this doesn't happen again.
I have to side with the family, somewhat, on this issue. The Missing Persons unit has repeatedly refused to fingerprint people who are on life support in the hospital who do not have family to identify them. Why, I can't understand. This guy should have been printed as routine.He was dying and it can be hard to identify someone from a photo of a person who has undergone trauma and medical treatment. So what, it is not any great cost and it seems it just plays into some laziness in some units.
CPD didn’t take him off life support. If anybody is culpable here it is the hospital, staff, and attending physicians.
Chicago Crook County.
High times for the attorneys.
Would have been nice to see a tax on those personal injury, wrongful whatever services.
Hospital rushed the issue.
Can’t and shouldn’t expect or depend on the community no matter what.
When they threw in the zip code and b-l-m factor, both LightLoafer campaign talking points, it really comes down to easy CookCo wrongful death money for the all of a sudden concerned family members.
Make those checks out to cash, ok.
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Starling: If you didn’t kill him then who did?
Lecter: Who can say? Best thing for him really. His therapy was going nowhere.
Good, it’s on paper then that they knew they killed a man that wasn’t their family. Arrest the family members who signed off on the paper to cut off life support. Charge them with 1st degree murder and violation of hipaa laws. They apparently knew this guy wasn’t their family and intentionally took him off life support knowing that he would die. The city can put the money they win from the lawsuit in their commissary.
Someone should sue the family for killing the stranger.........or at least some charges there Kimmy....
Anonymous said...
The cops dropped the ball on this one...Fingerprints should have been taken if the persons face was beat to hell and the hospital had him as John Doe .. It’s not hard to take fingerprints, submit them, have them examined then hopefully identified. At least the effort would have been made.
7/05/2019 12:26:00 AM
Hey DUFUS, nothings hard and everything only takes a second...when every contingency plan across the city entails calling the police....just how many free seconds you think they have?
FUCKING MORONS IN THIS STATE AND YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM!!! JUST A SECOND!!! MORON!!!
He was found badly injured then transported to the hospital if the police was involved in the discovery or was told about the discovery and a report was filed then he should have been printed. That's all it is.
This only became important because now this family member is finally worth some $$$$$$$$$$$$.
I gotta go with the dead guy's plaintiff on this one (and only her, the other ones obviously just want the lottery payout), although it sounds like it was the hospital that really screwed the pooch. Not-sure-if-momma sounds like the sort that would ID a Martian if it meant getting attention, surely CPD is not so hosed up that they don't account for that kind of behavior?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I am a little confused! Can anybody show me the statute or other legislation that requires the police to identify a patient in the hospital? How about the real family, had they reported him as missing? Even if they did why would the police check the guy who was identified (wrongly) by his family...They wouldn't, except in bizarre world A/K/A Chicago!
Well here's something for the AAAHOLES in springfield to do, they can pass another law that requires police to identify people and folks...LOL, Chicago, cook county, Illinois...ALL jok
You can’t be the police. Smh
He was either an unknown victim or a found person...either way he should have been fingerprinted at the hospital.
7/05/2019 12:35:00 AM
Youth Division's responsibility?
Neither of these families gave a hoot about either one of these guys until it came time for a check. If they hadn't seen them in weeks, WHY? That's your father, son, brother or uncle, why were you not calling him regularly anyway. Did any of them go to the hospital and say, Yep, that's uncle Eddie? Poor guy, What happened? One family said they were looking for him, but couldn't they see him and say yea, that looks like him. There's his tattoo, there's that scar, there's that old broke finger he used to point at us? Yes, no ID is a positive ID without prints, but the family members who know and love good ol' Uncle Eddie should have known. So the frivolous lawsuit will result in a check even without Loevy and Loevy getting involved, because that's what we do, pay the rats through the ghetto lottery fund.
Wrong! This is unacceptable. There is no excuse when it comes to a victim who is incapacitated and cannot speak for himself. Fingerprinting is a must. Family members can do a tentative I.D, but the identity is confirmed through fingerprints. These days family member attempt to identify individuals by clothing and the cellular that he was carrying. They are quick to call the Area or walk up to a detective and describe what the individual was last seen wearing. These are detectives. They should know better.
7/05/2019 10:07:00 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Why would you identify a badly beaten body by a mugshot? Which supervisor led that investigation? He or she should be sent back to patrol?
7/05/2019 10:11:00 AM
Agree. Would you want a stranger to pull the plug on a loved one
Oops sorry didn't mean to get you dead. My bad. Here's a check to make up for it. Lots of zeros on that check.
I predict a new general order in the midst on all OD's or John and Jane Doe's to be identified asap
Community lottery in action. Sue the deepest pockets. Simple as that. These fools will be back on welfare a year after the pay off, but those attorneys will get their pound of flesh come hell or high water. Buzzards will always feed.
I can’t get beyond the reception desk without showing a photo id, proof of insurance, and a co-pay if required. If anyone has to pay, it should be the hospital. Why all this free treatment for thee, but not for me. If the hospital moved the patient to hospice, his time was limited. No payout for anyone.
The cops dropped the ball on this one...Fingerprints should have been taken if the persons face was beat to hell and the hospital had him as John Doe .. It’s not hard to take fingerprints, submit them, have them examined then hopefully identified. At least the effort would have been made
OK platiff's attorney
Anonymous Anonymous said...
The cops dropped the ball on this one...Fingerprints should have been taken if the persons face was beat to hell and the hospital had him as John Doe .. It’s not hard to take fingerprints, submit them, have them examined then hopefully identified. At least the effort would have been made.
7/05/2019 12:26:00 AM
Let me guess, your dumb ass wants in on the lawsuit as well.
No ghetto lottery for you dirt bags. Police should be exempt from lawsuits just like Judges.
>>>>Anonymous said...
The cops dropped the ball on this one...Fingerprints should have been taken if the persons face was beat to hell and the hospital had him as John Doe .. It’s not hard to take fingerprints, submit them, have them examined then hopefully identified. At least the effort would have been made
OK platiff's attorney
7/05/2019 06:15:00 PM<<<<
Look idiot if you don’t understand basic police work then you should keep your idiotic comments to yourself.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I am a little confused! Can anybody show me the statute or other legislation that requires the police to identify a patient in the hospital? How about the real family, had they reported him as missing? Even if they did why would the police check the guy who was identified (wrongly) by his family...They wouldn't, except in bizarre world A/K/A Chicago!
Well here's something for the AAAHOLES in springfield to do, they can pass another law that requires police to identify people and folks...LOL, Chicago, cook county, Illinois...ALL jok
You can’t be the police. Smh
7/05/2019 02:53:00 PM
I'm starting to believe most people on here aren't anymore.
Anonymous said...
>>>>Anonymous said...
The cops dropped the ball on this one...Fingerprints should have been taken if the persons face was beat to hell and the hospital had him as John Doe .. It’s not hard to take fingerprints, submit them, have them examined then hopefully identified. At least the effort would have been made.
7/05/2019 12:26:00 AM
Hey DUFUS, nothings hard and everything only takes a second...when every contingency plan across the city entails calling the police....just how many free seconds you think they have?
FUCKING MORONS IN THIS STATE AND YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM!!! JUST A SECOND!!! MORON!!!
7/05/2019 12:42:00 PM<<<
Hey dumbass... when you learn how to conduct a proper investigation then I’ll let you talk to me meanwhile STFU because you are dumb as hell just look at your above response.
Finger prints would only work if there were any on file. No prints same problem.
No prints on file then what?
Anonymous said...
I have to side with the family, somewhat, on this issue. The Missing Persons unit has repeatedly refused to fingerprint people who are on life support in the hospital who do not have family to identify them. Why, I can't understand. This guy should have been printed as routine.He was dying and it can be hard to identify someone from a photo of a person who has undergone trauma and medical treatment. So what, it is not any great cost and it seems it just plays into some laziness in some units.
7/05/2019 11:45:00 AM
Listen up you troll. First, there is no "missing persons" unit in the CPD Detective Division (hence, I know that you're a troll). Next, I worked in the Detective Division for over twenty years in both HGS (Violent Crimes) and in SVU (Formerly the Youth Division). NEVER have I seen a detective REFUSE to fingerprint a "found" person who is hospitalized and incapable of speaking. You must be the lawyer for the family trying to develop credibility for your baseless lawsuit. But, your honor, it's on the cop blog that detectives routinely refused to fingerprint people on life support! GFY
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I can’t get beyond the reception desk without showing a photo id, proof of insurance, and a co-pay if required. If anyone has to pay, it should be the hospital. Why all this free treatment for thee, but not for me. If the hospital moved the patient to hospice, his time was limited. No payout for anyone.
7/05/2019 05:55:00 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Why should the hospital pay when they had the victim listed as John DOE until the detectives brought the mugshot. It’s the hospital’s job to treat patients. It’s the detective’s job to conduct investigations, fingerprint and identify. Hospitals does not have fingerprinting machines. The victim was brought to the hospital at the request of officers. The victim was found person.
Please read the G.O on found persons.
Blogger 30 pending and what said...
I predict a new general order in the midst on all OD's or John and Jane Doe's to be identified asap
7/05/2019 05:37:0
There is one. It’s called “Found Person”.
Anonymous said...
Finger prints would only work if there were any on file. No prints same problem.
7/05/2019 11:23:00 PM
Anonymous said...
No prints on file then what?
7/05/2019 11:24:00 PM
Then a further search through the state and FBI databases would be made.
"...these are detectives. They should know better..."
Merit detectives wouldn't.
Anonymous said...
He was found badly injured then transported to the hospital if the police was involved in the discovery or was told about the discovery and a report was filed then he should have been printed. That's all it is.
7/05/2019 01:52:00 PM
The city trying to save some bucks by having him printed by the guy assigned to the M.E.’s office?
A simple solution to the identity problem is to have prints taken at birth and an IR number issued, just like they get a Social Security number for their automatic S.S.I. Account....
For the uninformed and jumping to conclusion posters out there read this article and you’ll see how the cops messed up on this one, it explains the situation better.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/7/3/20681769/family-files-lawsuit-after-their-uncle-misidentified-police-pulled-off-life-support
"Squad I'd like to order an ET for prints at the hospital"
Citywide 2 "Is this a homicide investigation?"
"No"
Citywide 2 "Beat 5830 they want prints and the guy is still alive"
Beat 5830 "Ya, call us back when he's dead we are not coming out."
"Squad I'd like to order an ET for prints at the hospital"
Citywide 2 "Is this a homicide investigation?"
"No"
Citywide 2 "Beat 5830 they want prints and the guy is still alive"
Beat 5830 "Ya, call us back when he's dead we are not coming out."
7/06/2019 11:28:00 AM
Good luck at trying to get an ET to come out and do anything. Citywide 2 dispatcher are awful. They laugh and mobile with the ET supervisors who refuse most requests. Dispatcher are trained to contact ET supervisors and to deny most requests. Requesting an. ET is easier said than done.
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