The Only Ones Calling For A Hit On Their Partners Enough

CHICAGO - "Videotapes of angry officers savagely beating civilians and charges that a murder plot was hatched within an elite special operations unit have Chicago's troubled police department reeling again.

Adding to the department's woes is word from federal prosecutors that they are investigating claims that homicide detectives tortured suspects into confessing to murders that landed them on death row in the 1980s.

Not since club-swinging cops in baby-blue helmets chased demonstrators through clouds of pepper gas at the 1968 Democratic National Convention have Chicago police been so awash in trouble.

The biggest shock came Wednesday when federal prosecutors charged special operations officer Jerome Finnigan with planning the murder of another member of the unit to keep him from talking to the government.

"This kind of stuff on Page One is just horrible," and reinforces a misleading stereotype of police, said Roosevelt University political scientist Paul Green, who taught at the police academy for four years."

No siree Bob, Paul. Happens every day it does. Among American citizens licensed to carry firearms, Police as a sub-species if you will, commit far more criminal acts than any other. This makes you a part of the problem, Paul, an enabler who obviously doesn't keep up with the DAILY reports of cops gone wild.

4 words for you, Paul:

New. Orleans. Police. Department.

Telling me that 99.9% of those officers did their jobs professionally? So their looting of those Wal-Marts was done, um, like a true pro would? The missing cars stolen from dealerships? The illegal seizure of those firearms?

Handled like true professionals.

Professional criminals.