Ten suits filed against ex-cop accused of faking DUI evidence

[BlueJessamine]

Source: Chicago Sun-Times

Ten false-arrest lawsuits were filed Tuesday in federal court against Joe D. Parker, a former Chicago cop accused of falsifying information in drunk-driving arrests.

The target of the suits, Joe D. Parker, 60, retired from the Chicago Police Department July 1. Earlier this year, the city's Independent Police Review Authority and the police Internal Affairs Division launched investigations into several of Parker's DUI busts on Lake Shore Drive.

The Cook County state's attorney's office is conducting a criminal investigation, court records show.

Prosecutors have dropped dozens of DUI cases because of questions about Parker's conduct, sources say.



Read more: http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1689629,CST-NWS-duicop29.article

[Soylent Brice]

1. add that to the cops in Hollywood. way to go assholes.

[formercia]

2. Hi, I'm going to kick your ass and get away with it!

http://chicagoist.com/2007/11/15/brutal_report_o.php
Brutal Report on CPD



Kind of a CPD-heavy day today. University of Chicago Law School professor Craig Futterman released a new study today titled "The Use of Statistical Evidence to Address Police Supervisory and Disciplinary Practices: The Chicago Police Department's Broken System." (Download the .pdf here.) The report is only 40 pages long, and it's un-fucking-believable. In it, Futterman and his co-authors H. Melissa Mather and Melanie Miles outline a blistering analysis of the CPD's "fundamental and systemic" problems, a "culture of not knowing" and a "machinery of denial" when it comes to charges of police abuse. We'll pull out some highlights here, but the entire report is really, really worth reading:

"The odds are two in a thousand that a Chicago police officer will receive any meaningful discipline as a result of being charged with abusing a civilian."
The report then goes on to explain that police brutality is under-reported, which means the odds of a Chicago police officer ever facing real consequences for brutality is even lower than 2 in 1,000; the report puts it at 2 in 10,000.

"While few police departments are known for effectively policing themselves, Chicago is, on a number of accountability measures, significantly worse than the norm.... The average sustained rate for excessive force cases in major metropolitan police departments was 8 percent, compared to Chicago’s 0.48% "

--snip--

[mopinko]

3. hopefully the budget squeeze in chicago will lead more cops like this

"retiring". the same clowns get sued over and over. but somehow they never get fired. then they wonder why people have a problem with cops.

[WriteDown]

4. Ah...Chi-town PD

same as it ever was.

[depakid]

5. These deals are actually quite common

For example- a box checked "strong smell of alcohol" on a police report -only to discover that the defendant wasn't drinking at all, and/or was under the influence of some other substance.

[Critters2]

6. A cop is just a stranger with a gun.

Sad but true.