Who Watches the Watchers?
- A city employee who investigated misconduct allegations against Chicago police was forced to resign for improperly accessing investigative records on cops she knew and for falsely reporting that a co-worker planned a mass shooting at work, a report by the city’s inspector general revealed Tuesday.
The report by the office of Chicago Inspector General Joseph Ferguson did not name the employee, but Alison Yohanna was later criminally charged by Cook County prosecutors in connection with the alleged false report.
Yohanna, 35, accessed the records of her brother, boyfriend and some of the boyfriend’s relatives — all Chicago cops — almost 70 times while working as an investigator for the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, Ferguson’s office said.
The report did not explain the purpose behind Yohanna’s searches but said she also failed to reveal to COPA the personal ties to the officers that posed a conflict of interest for her investigative post.
We know you inherited it Groot, but it's yours now. This is the same organization that had to be sued over hiding exculpatory expert findings of police shootings, paid for by taxpayers and who leaked "evidence" to the media regarding a set of false charges against a commander.
Labels: corruption
posted by SCC at 12:04 AM
39 Comments:
Wasn’t this woman the daughter of some other anti-police person? My memory fails me.
The weakness and tipping point for internal dissension
in any organization: The Watchers
Put yourself in harms way! You see who is investing complaints. Workers always get screwed. They don’t give a crap about us. Over two years and no contract. City could give a shit about us. We are human garbage handlers.
SSC, Groot doe not care! They are trying to catch us!
What about the COPA employees with
street gang affiliations or is that
still hush-hush in the name of
Police Reform & Accountability?
You know...
"Tha' Communerty" runnin' thangs
and finally getting their revenge against the
Police.
Glenn Evans finna be makin’ it rain hella baller-style when he’s done exacting his pound of flesh. He’s got those COPA assholes dead bang.
Very Interesting. The city only hires the best and brightest to work here.
Do you have to be a Filthy Rat to belong to a Rat Squad?
IIRC, This isn't the first Sleaze found in COPA?
Aren't these people supposed to be stopping Corruption?
Oh double snap around the world! !
OPS, IPRA and IAD/ IAB have had the same problems.
They have had investigators making up allegations,
Residency, Drunk, Illegal guns, Racist comments, it goes on and on......
But no one is held accountable, Most were promoted and now Lieutenants or higher ranks.....
Hey Gorner, do a search of closed cases and see who the allegations came from?
Pretty easy pattern or misconduct by fabricating allegations.
I'm not willing to say that ms mayor "inherited" IPRA. she was once in charge of it.
All they have done is change the name since she was there.
Lightfoot says that the Chicago police are losing the streets;
http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/local/mayor-lightfoot-not-happy-with-chicago-violence-police-are-losing-the-streets
She is in New York again holding a news conference speaking about the Chicago Police Department, how about staying in your city mayor with all the bloodshed doing something about it, how about talking to your friend the states attorney maybe you can get her to do her job or how about the crook county president the one that ran against you maybe you can have some of the people March March March March to her office and to the states attorneys office shut down the city until the crime goes down until they do their jobs stop blaming the police mayor it’s getting old. Mayor you are at a so-called leader ship conference correct? How about start showing some leader ship stop with your fake propaganda bastardizing the Chicago police officers who go out there every day and do the tough job how about supporting them that would be something wouldn’t it. How about making sure the Chicago police officers get a fair contract also how about making sure the Chicago Police Pension fund is fully funded as promised which is your job to do that correct?
How about looking into the shenanigans in the top echelon how the Chicago Police Department reducing the exempt rank structure looking into let’s say the cheating scandal for the lieutenants test that so many bosses were involved how about curing that? How soon before Eddie and his cruisers are gone? What is the over under on Leo coming back and running the Chicago Police Department what are the odds?
https://blockclubchicago.org/2019/07/16/ravenswood-shooting-wounds-man-43-sitting-on-back-porch/
4600 block of North Ashland. keep up the good work, Mayor Groot!
They are very special, aren't they?
Nice way for her to blow a law license.
A violation of a crucial rule...
"Don't date the help!!'
Well just look at some of the assholes they hire. This shithole city might as well be Bob Mugabe's Zimbabwe.
Does that argument hold for the other COPA employees that have family that's been arrested that they are biased against the police??????? Why isn't that a conflict of interest??
The corruption here might be CPD related than just COPA. Suntimes is reporting that IG report states she compromised "COPA investigations involving the employee's brother, boyfriend and boyfriend's family members, all of whom are police officers." Seemsnlike she was spying on the investigations.
Anywhere else that conduct would be evidence tampering since COPA was given a purpose to incriminate police actions.
COPA being run and directed by bias is not a legitimate operation and still continues to be an inept, dysfunctional, unnecessary city institution.
Discharging a corrupt employee is NOT enough. This sort of action and it does follow a pattern of practice with unbridled COPA privileges. This should be enough to shut them down, void any and all consent decrees and several civil suits with punitive damages lobed at the upper management.
Giving civilians total access to police files was never a good idea, at one time the City agreed to limit that access, but not anymore.
We need better legal representation to challenge the corrupt COPA even if it takes a Federal injunction.
So why are the Area homicide files are under lock and key from the Sworn?
Wake up FOP!!!
OT, sorry but the more appropriate column below is not accepting response so I’ll include it here.
Thanks to all those that attended the 20th annual Chicago police vs. fire baseball game at Guaranteed Rate Field/Sox Park.
It was great to see the kids at this family event that supports the CPD Memorial Foundation and the CFD Gold Badge Society on behalf of our fallen members.
Tickets (online) were only $5.00 and free parking to see a friendly intramural ball game between our Chicago’s First Responders at a professional baseball stadium venue.
Great time for police/fire Members and their families. Included in the event were: Honor Guard contingent, pipe band, patriot motorcycle riders tribute, and the helicopter flyover as added extras just to name a few.
Seating filled home plate to the 1st and 3rd baselines.
Consider attending next year.
PS CPD’s Finest came out on top this year against the CFD’s Bravest, 21-4.
Thanks to all involved!
Stay Safe.
"Police Reform and Accountability needs
to happen hard, fast and right now..."
Since COPA has been proven to be a corrupt
coven of white-guilt liberal, Progressive/Social Justice
and revenge-seeking Perpetual Grievant peoples and folkses,
COPA should then be considered unworthy of trust or care
and should be haunted, hunted, presumed guilty and judged
with 20/20 hindsight and second guessing just as
The Police are...
All that's needed to make that happen is selective
and hotted-up outrage by "Tha' Communerty" and the
local, complicit in their own riotous prolapse,
reeking and leaking anal-whore media...
...Then we all can point and laugh as those haters at COPA
swing from the same gnarly branches of the hanging tree of
Community Justice-Peoples an' Folkses Finally Getting Revenge
that they boasted openly and loudly about desiring to dangle
Policemen and their families from...
Heh...
They be an oppressed but nonetheless "Christ Loving"
law abiding and peaceful peoples an' folkses so there
is NO WAY they can harbor politically, socially and culturally
weaponized, community sourced animus, violence and hatred
toward ANYONE.
"Anyone" being inclusive of The Police...
Right?
>Pfffft!<
"Why y'all actin' like y'all don't care about US?"
>Said in some fashion at any urban death cultist scene
aftermath that The Police are compelled to respond to<
"Y'all just here for eight hours an' y'all run back to
y'all safe neighborhoods an' leave US here! That's why
we HATES Y'ALL!"
Heh...
How IS that "Police Reform" working out for you,
Madame Mayor?
Still casting the FOP refusal to surrender due process
and other Constitutional Rights, contractual protections
in place due to past practices by previous mayoral
administrations and other common sense things characterized
in the media as "unfair protection for Police from punishment"
as "obstruction?"
You're as entertaining as you are a hazard
to public peace, order and safety, Madame Mayor.
As for The Police?
Police Like You Have No Friends.
Look.
Point & Laugh.
Leave.
Give THEM nothing to hurt you with.
Some September, you'll see the depths
of desperation they'll descend to.
How do all these friends and relatives become Officers when many candidates with no criminal record or history from the suburbs mysteriously fail the psych test and polygraph?
Apparently nobody really watches the watchers.
Criminal loving, cops hating LIBERAL pukes in charge of police reform and accountability. What could possibly go wrong???............there is a reason why those with police and military backgrounds do not need to apply and will not be considered.
Blogger IFIYGD said...
"Glenn Evans finna be makin’ it rain hella baller-style
when he’s done exacting his pound of flesh. He’s got
those COPA assholes dead bang."
7/17/2019 01:23:00 AM
Hoping Glenn goes in like a SAVAGE on these
low-life m/fers and ruins them and their families
and friends so completely that they will flee
in terror at the sight of a CPD uniform for the
next 100 years.
Show them NO mercy or pity, Glenn!
Share the Cliff Notes version of how to
successfully legally/financially destroy
a haven of haters like COPA so that the rest
of us can have a roadmap on how to...
Bet you a fat man on his best Friday
they've already been trying to appeal
to Glenn for a "peaceful resolution."
Seriously hoping he burns them all
at the stake.
Is it true they want to start checking reports for "inclusive language?"
https://collegian.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Inclusive-Language-Guide_10_30_18.pdf
RIP Bernie Epton said...
https://blockclubchicago.org/2019/07/16/ravenswood-shooting-wounds-man-43-sitting-on-back-porch/
4600 block of North Ashland. keep up the good work, Mayor Groot!
7/17/2019 07:59:00 AM
Huh?
Ashland & Wilson has been reclining in riotous rot like a
skeleton in a 55 gallon drum of shit for the last 40 years.
...Blame the shit that percolated through from Uptown.
Would love to see the cheaters of the lieutenants test go down and under. This is big shit because once Eddie leaves, the gloves come off
Force them to resign
Madame mayor, no matter what color of officers or you, crime will not subside. No matter how much money you throw at them, they will continue to terrorize taxpaying citizens and CPD. Until the worst are locked away for most of their lives, and others are forced to work for a living, they’ll always be takers and nothing more.
Don’t be discouraged when I tell you that you’ll never see progress in your lifetime, nor the current citizens of Chicago. You have a better chance of finding a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow (and I don’t mean through bribes, payoffs or theft).
Sorry to disappoint you, but you need to hear the truth.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
How do all these friends and relatives become Officers when many candidates with no criminal record or history from the suburbs mysteriously fail the psych test and polygraph?
7/17/2019 01:52:00 PM
I wonder which cameras first. Her job or theirs.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Would love to see the cheaters of the lieutenants test go down and under. This is big shit because once Eddie leaves, the gloves come off
Force them to resign
7/17/2019 10:18:00 PM
The health challenged superintendent will max out with his gold braid pension, just about the same time that his ethics challenged wife, maxes out her ill gotten Lt. pension. They will win no matter what. Taking the money and leaving the used chumps behind. They could stick around just for laughs, to see if they could make more money from lawsuits..... they would be KMA!
"Glenn Evans finna be makin’ it rain hella baller-style
when he’s done exacting his pound of flesh. He’s got
those COPA assholes dead bang."
7/17/2019 01:23:00 AM
Only problem is that Glenn is a 25 watt bulb in a 60 watt pack. Once they get him in a deposition or on the stand he will stumble and blow his whole case out of the water. He may be a great street cop, but ability to write and testify are just as important.
Only problem is that Glenn is a 25 watt bulb in a 60 watt pack. Once they get him in a deposition or on the stand he will stumble and blow his whole case out of the water. He may be a great street cop, but ability to write and testify are just as important.
7/18/2019 09:51:00 AM
Then you don't really know him.
"Only problem is that Glenn is a 25 watt bulb in a 60 watt pack. Once they get him in a deposition or on the stand he will stumble and blow his whole case out of the water. He may be a great street cop, but ability to write and testify are just as important."
One of the stupidest comments I have ever seen on this blog. And I’ve been reading this blog since May 2005.
Glenn, in addition to have multiple degrees, scored high on both sgts and lts exams. No merit no cheating. The department and city implemented some of his proposals which have, and continually helps and benefits officers and citizens. The above commenter apparently made this comment without reading any of his reports, or his depositions. Glenn held his own during depositions.
Before commenters make themselves appear asinine, they should do their homework. Like actually reading the lawsuits, transcripts, and depositions in his cases. IPRA, COPA, a IAD sgt, and a couple of exempts have huge nightmares heading their way. They should worry about the depositions, not Glenn.
and BTW, since he is the plaintiff, the city and defendants are barred from dirtying him up in court. The plaintiffs have no such restrictions. Which is why the city has lost over 700 million tax dollars in lawsuits
"...We know you inherited it Groot, but it's yours now. This is the same organization that had to be sued over hiding exculpatory expert findings of police shootings, paid for by taxpayers and who leaked "evidence" to the media regarding a set of false charges against a commander...."
One of the smartest, most knowing posts ever posted by SCC.
Inspectors on the prowl , run silent, run deep
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