Vallas Puts Two and Two Together
- Chicago’s media outlets are amplifying a dangerous narrative that paints the Chicago Police Department (CPD) as racist and unreformable, eroding public trust and hamstringing officers who protect our streets. This isn’t journalism—its activism disguised as reporting. Criminals are increasingly treated as victims and cops as villains by so called police reformers and advocates and criminal trial lawyers with media cheerleading the distortion. Facts be damned: the story line is that CPD is biased against Black residents, and allergic to change. It’s time to set the record straight.
It was a racket - it was always a racket:
In nearly every major settlement for wrongful conviction or police misconduct, failure to implement the Consent Decree is cited as justification for multimillion-dollar payouts. Rarely do reporter’s question whether individuals receiving these settlements were actually innocent or why the settlements are so large. Since 2000, Chicago has paid out over $700 million in police misconduct lawsuits, not because claimants were proven innocent but due to alleged police misconduct.
The media ignored Kim Foxx’s brokering of deals with a secretive “Lawyers Committee” composed of private attorneys specializing in lawsuits against the police. These lawyers, sometimes hired as “Special Assistant State’s Attorneys,” worked to overturn murder convictions, often not because of new exculpatory evidence but due to allegations of police misconduct. Foxx’s “Conviction Integrity Unit” issued “Certificates of Innocence” even when there was no evidence to support actual innocence, paving the way for successful lawsuits against the city.
After eight years of Foxx having her thumb on the scales of justice, Chicago has seen half the nation’s overturned convictions and wrongful conviction lawsuits filed. By the time she left office in December 2024, Foxx left as many as 275 wrongful conviction cases for which lawsuits have been or will be filed, seeking millions more in damages. These new suits could cost the city $ 1 billion. No one in the media ever seems to question whether these individuals were innocent of the crimes.
Everything Vallas wrote is 100% true, 100% accurate....and 100% years too late. Like we said, Preib led the way on a lot of this and did far more legwork than any "reporter" even attempted to do because investigative reporting is dead and "journalism" is a corrupt enterprise these days.
You can read it all at the link up top and wonder what might have been before the death-spiral took hold of Chicago and bankrupted it - financially and morally.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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Major problem with the department is that they have 2 year wonders working inside when the 21 year veteran takes the bullet. We put in our time. Take care of us. They will earn it too. It's the right way.
Vallas had AI write that for him. Go read his old stuff, he never used to write with em dashes... But its a known hallmark of AI writing.
The hiring and promotions on the Chicago Police Department seem questionable. The Superintendents all seem shady and their Command Staff a crooked. But what can you do!
I hope Vallas runs for Mayor.
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Unfortunately these young coppers don’t take their job seriously. They don’t understand every single stop they make, every single interaction must be backed up by ironclad probable cause or titanium reasonable suspicion. We still have coppers responding to “guy has a gun” and stopping people without more information and the CCL law came out decades ago. However the paying out of millions for petty nonsense has already gotten out of the bag and won’t be put back in. You can be completely innocent and the city still settle for 50k because the allegation cost more to fight than to settle.
Ah don't look at the media nothing to see here.
It’s been a hoax pulled on the public for decades. Scam companies and politicians got rich of the hoax. False narrative
So he can split the vote and lose again?
Every white officer, past and present should file a class action law suit against the department for not being able to do their job because of the systemic racism within the department.
It’s Chicago, politicians don’t want to take responsibility for p putting black and brown people in their position. Then the Chicago Police has to clean up their continued failures while the politicians punish the Police and crime victims while protecting the savages.
Stop. He did already. And it got BJ elected. We need a white moderate if anything is going to change at all.
It all started with The Chicago Tribune, Eric Zorn and the "Innocence Project".
May they never know a minutes peace in life and damnation in death
I’m a Black female and totally agree with this article. Yes, I have experienced racism on the job by a racist sergeant, but the surprising thing was that more compassionate White officers supported and encouraged me over so-called Black activists. I know for a fact now that many Democrats are hypocrites using the “dog whistle” tactic of racism to make minorities scared and not listen to the truth of the Republican Party. I will not be ignorant to say corruption and some Republicans don’t carry hatred toward minorities, but it’s more on the Democratic side, and many are Black. My opinion is that the Democratic Party is a system of hypocrites and deceitful people, with many naive like I was.
The root beer queen was raking in the dough while committing her subterfuge. The exoneration industry here is the new gold rush.
He has. He lost.
Finish the story - who did those bottom feeding attorneys donate (kickback) to?
Its more like the Hoooood is allergic to the laws of society.
How does one issue a certificate of innocence? Are you god or something? What a joke. Only in cook county
A lot of guys/gals still like to be on the street, but I agree after a certain amount of time there should be a rotation to inside even if for just 6 months. I worked special one night with a girl from 007. She was kind of burnt out with lawsuits etc. she had 15 years straight on the street with a small blip for her pregnancy the birth of her daughter. As we talked, I realized what the “problem” was, she was a worker and she wasn’t f’n anyone or related to anyone.
it is impossible to get promoted on the cpd without clout
While your point is fair, and seniority should mean something, a 21 year vet should be able to conduct a proper search. Lots went wrong in this scenario. The least of which is seniority.
There are no so-called "Moderates" in the Democratic Party. Those day are long gone.
They are certainly no "certificate of Innocence" and it's criminal that they are called that. I knew some daft woman who dated a guy with one. She was allowing this guy into our building after knowing him less than a month and he spent 20 yrs inside. I knew something was off because she told everyone he has a piece of paper saying he's innocent. She glossed over the facts of the case (said it was a rape, when in fact it was a rape and murder of an 11 year old child). So I took the time to read what I could find regarding it and there was no proof of innocence. He got off because his semen wasn't found (which in his confession he said he didn't ejaculate), but someone else's semen was found...which again didn't prove anything because there was speculation there was more than one. He also got off on the basis his confession was coerced because he had a low IQ. None of it proved innocence -only not enough evidence to convict him. Apparently, the jury's opinion meant nothing.
Police work is like any trade a bulk of the skill is handed down. Part of the reason the new officers are that way is the senior officers who failed to hand down the skills. Years of saying 'stay fetal' and the CPD culture of resisting furthering education got us here.
Sure we can cry about the generational changed but the age gap in the ranks is nothing new.
I agree with the CCL thing, as DSS I call this the tact special and their supervisors back them even after being show our training bulletin and the case law. Then the LT still approves it, its a cultural problem.
Let's face it, the Dimocratic system is broken.... Everyone needs to go to S.E.R.E. School......
Ongoing CPD Promotional Scam that has been going on for decades needs to be fully investigated by the Feds. Envelopes to Aldermen, Senators , etc. tied to the Merit Promotions have cheated thiusands of honest hard working Officers out of rightful promotions, via test grading hanky panky of all sorts. DOJ/FBI: please commence a full investigation of this scam instituted by our Democrat Politicians and upper Eschelon CPD Supervisors past and present. Ask Madigan and Ed Burke, Durbin, for starters
It is long overdue for the feds to look into the CPD hiring and promotional scams that have been going on for decades
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