Chicago police plagued by racism, says official report

CHICAGO: -- The police force in the US city of Chicago is plagued by racism, according to an official report.

A task force, set up after a public outcry over police shootings, said some officers had "no regard for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of colour".

It said the department had alienated blacks and Hispanics by using excessive force and honouring a code of silence.

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36041990


-- BBC 2016-04-14

This is a real shock.

How is it possible that President Obama's very own hometown police force is one of those infamous "Dirty Harry" operations?

Could this be Ferguson, MO, on steroids?

White is a color too...the police in Chicago are overly aggressive toward ALL citizens, not just the "colored" ones...

From the OP:

Chicago's new police chief, Eddie Johnson, who is African-American, has vowed to eradicate racism within the force.

"We have racism in America. We have racism in Chicago. So it stands to reason we would have some racism within our agency. My goal is to root that out,'' he told reporters after being sworn in.

We recall that the first municipal police departments in the USA were formed from the informal "Slave Patrols" of riders and hunters who went after slaves that had excaped their concentration camps plantations.

The recent national police crimewave against unarmed black Americans has called attention to the rightwing Republican cops who still think a certain kind of citizen is free target practice.

Most cops in the USA do the right thing in a tough job most of the time.

Too many cops are right wing burnouts so it's past time to test them professionally so they can be identified and removed from police work. Get 'em a nice quiet no stress job...maybe retire to Thailand.

This is a real shock.

How is it possible that President Obama's very own hometown police force is one of those infamous "Dirty Harry" operations?

Could this be Ferguson, MO, on steroids?

If a tree falls in the woods and nobody hears it is it Obama's fault.

The time of the bad cops in race matters are numbered despite their advocates and supporters.

From the OP:

Chicago's new police chief, Eddie Johnson, who is African-American, has vowed to eradicate racism within the force.

"We have racism in America. We have racism in Chicago. So it stands to reason we would have some racism within our agency. My goal is to root that out,'' he told reporters after being sworn in.

We recall that the first municipal police departments in the USA were formed from the informal "Slave Patrols" of riders and hunters who went after slaves that had excaped their concentration camps plantations.

The recent national police crimewave against unarmed black Americans has called attention to the rightwing Republican cops who still think a certain kind of citizen is free target practice.

Most cops in the USA do the right thing in a tough job most of the time.

Too many cops are right wing burnouts so it's past time to test them professionally so they can be identified and removed from police work. Get 'em a nice quiet no stress job...maybe retire to Thailand.

The recent national police crimewave against unarmed black Americans...

Where in the US...did the police find "unarmed" black Americans?

From the OP:

Chicago's new police chief, Eddie Johnson, who is African-American, has vowed to eradicate racism within the force.

"We have racism in America. We have racism in Chicago. So it stands to reason we would have some racism within our agency. My goal is to root that out,'' he told reporters after being sworn in.

We recall that the first municipal police departments in the USA were formed from the informal "Slave Patrols" of riders and hunters who went after slaves that had excaped their concentration camps plantations.

The recent national police crimewave against unarmed black Americans has called attention to the rightwing Republican cops who still think a certain kind of citizen is free target practice.

Most cops in the USA do the right thing in a tough job most of the time.

Too many cops are right wing burnouts so it's past time to test them professionally so they can be identified and removed from police work. Get 'em a nice quiet no stress job...maybe retire to Thailand.

The recent national police crimewave against unarmed black Americans...

Where in the US...did the police find "unarmed" black Americans?

Wow that's hysterical.

From the OP:

Chicago's new police chief, Eddie Johnson, who is African-American, has vowed to eradicate racism within the force.

"We have racism in America. We have racism in Chicago. So it stands to reason we would have some racism within our agency. My goal is to root that out,'' he told reporters after being sworn in.

We recall that the first municipal police departments in the USA were formed from the informal "Slave Patrols" of riders and hunters who went after slaves that had excaped their concentration camps plantations.

The recent national police crimewave against unarmed black Americans has called attention to the rightwing Republican cops who still think a certain kind of citizen is free target practice.

Most cops in the USA do the right thing in a tough job most of the time.

Too many cops are right wing burnouts so it's past time to test them professionally so they can be identified and removed from police work. Get 'em a nice quiet no stress job...maybe retire to Thailand.

The recent national police crimewave against unarmed black Americans...

Where in the US...did the police find "unarmed" black Americans?

Unarmed black American males are the only kind of black males the rightwing racial Republican white cops go after. The target practice cops.

The racial cops and their apologists in Chicago and throughout the country are running out of their racial excuses and rationales.

The time has come to get the psychopath cops out of a police officer uniform and put some real police officers into 'em. That is where we're going like it or not.

Publicus sees racism everywhere. That 120 kilo black monster robbing you with a gunpoint is just your evil imagination.

With a little more realism...I like simple explanations rather than this racism BS. In my native country the street cops are the most negative towards immigrants.

Explanation lies in the fact that they are the ones dealing with these people...

Look at: www.heyjackass.com

Then see how telling the real statistics of Chicongo is.

"CHICAGO (USA TODAY) — Murders in the nation's third-largest city are up about 72%, while shootings have surged more than 88% in the first three months of 2016 compared with the same period last year, according to data released Friday by the Chicago Police Department."

From the quoted story above seems like the New Police Chief is doing a real good job. Chicago is a war zone in the black area and when you come down on all your police force for political reasons instead of just those that are wrong the results are easy to see.

The Move On.0rg, only black lives matter movement, Democrat party and other militarist black panther organizations are continually race baiting. That is their political base, if Hillary is president America loses. What is even more amazing is the fortune that the fat lipping liberals are amassing by selling their hatred. For example ole Rev. Al Sharpton owes 5 million in back taxes from the money he made with his race baiting organization.

it's also important to keep in mind that if police "profile" blacks, it's probably because the practice makes sense...blacks are far more violent than any other racial group...recent stats founds that about 90% of the gun violence in Chicago is conducted by blacks...

just because an objective truth violates one's sensitivities doesn't make the fact racist or invalid...