Obviously Corrupt Suburb

The Markham Officer who found that gun in the felonious "violence interrupters" car and who was ordered by the chief to release said felon and return said gun to the owner?

She got fired:

• The Markham cop who found a gun in the center console of a convicted murderer’s car, only to be ordered by the department’s chief to let the man go, has been fired.

  Markham Police Chief Jack Genius terminated Probationary Police Officer Kayla M. Heller on December 8, the same day CWBChicago informed Genius that the outlet was preparing a news story about the October 8 incident involving Tyrone Muhammad, a convicted killer and U.S. Senate candidate who works as a violence interrupter.

  State records show Heller was initially certified as a law enforcement officer on December 20, 2024, and sources familiar with her employment say she was set to complete her one-year probationary period with Markham PD this coming Saturday.

  But those same state records show Markham separated Heller on December 8 as the Illinois Attorney General’s Office was pressuring the town’s police department to provide CWBChicago with video footage related to Muhammad’s traffic stop, detention, and release. CWB sought the attorney general’s intervention after Markham wrongfully refused to release any information about the October 8 incident despite two open records requests.

Granted, she was "probationary" and so has little recourse aside from a hugely expensive lawsuit, but we all know exactly what happened here.

And chief moron Genius appears to be politically untouchable as he has faced corruption charges of his own, selling badges among other things. But somehow, he landed a chief job in one of the more crooked suburbs here in Illinois.