Tag: Courts

Unprotected: Analyzing Judicial Protection of Constitutional Rights — scrutinize

We introduce a new metric for assessing judges: Suppression reversals. This
metric focuses on one of the judiciary’s most sacred duties: Protecting the
constitutional rights of individuals from police overreach. A suppression
reversal not only indicates that a trial court judge failed to properly
interpret and apply the constitution; it may also signal potential bias in
favor of the police.
— Read on www.scrutinize.org/unprotected

More than 100 cops who lied missing from Cook County’s Brady list

There is a serious problem with Brady lists. Some of the issues surrounding them are, do officers ever get a chance to be removed from those lists? What is due process for an officer that has been placed on a Brady list? Is there a criteria that the officers actions must meet to be placed on a Brady list? 

At least 15 of the nearly 120 Chicago police officers found to have made false or misleading statements were still on the force as of May.
— Read on chicagoreader.com/news-politics/brady-list-cpd-misconduct/

2023 Plea Bargain Task Force Report urges fairer, more transparent justice system

CHICAGO (Feb. 22, 2023) – Plea bargaining has become the primary way to resolve criminal cases in the United States, with nearly 98% of convictions nationwide currently coming from guilty pleas. But plea bargaining as currently practiced is often unj
— Read on www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2023/02/plea-bargain-task-force/

Get a .PDF copy of the report HERE

Repeated Police Misconduct by 200 Officers Cost Chicago Taxpayers $164.3M Over 5 Years: Analysis | Chicago News | WTTW

Cases that involved at least one officer with repeated claims of misconduct accounted for nearly 43% of the $384.2 million paid by taxpayers to resolve police misconduct cases between 2019 and 2023, according to the analysis.

The issue with this report is that there is no like to the analysis.

The report doesn’t indicate how many cases went to trial, lost at trial, cases where compromises were made.

Keep in mind that with police misconduct law suits the Municipality acts in its own interests. Not in the interests of the officers. This means the officers can be innocent of the accusations and the Municipality would settle if it thinks it less expensive or politically advantageous to settle.
— Read on news.wttw.com/2024/08/12/repeated-police-misconduct-200-officers-cost-chicago-taxpayers-1643m-over-5-years