November 14, 2021
By Annie Sweeney, Alice Yin and Jeremy Gorner
The controversial head (click here) of Chicago’s largest police union faces firing this week, four years after officials launched an investigation into allegations he posted inflammatory statements on social media, including some advocating violence, while serving as a Chicago police officer.
Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7 President John Catanzara, whom rank- and-file officers elected as their union head while he was under investigation, faces dozens of Police Department rule violations connected to 18 allegations at the hearing slated to begin Monday morning at the Chicago Police Board....
By Annie Sweeney, Alice Yin and Jeremy Gorner
The controversial head (click here) of Chicago’s largest police union faces firing this week, four years after officials launched an investigation into allegations he posted inflammatory statements on social media, including some advocating violence, while serving as a Chicago police officer.
Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7 President John Catanzara, whom rank- and-file officers elected as their union head while he was under investigation, faces dozens of Police Department rule violations connected to 18 allegations at the hearing slated to begin Monday morning at the Chicago Police Board....
I said well over a year ago, the police unions are too powerful and provide too much legal protection of police. The police should never be above the law.
Not only did the Police Union Boss stay in his job with impunity for a long time, now the Advisor to the Chicago Mayor is resigning. The resignation is not because he found Mayor Lightfoot difficult to work for, but, because the change and LAW that was supposed to be implimented is IMPOSSIBLE to do so, regardless of the legal document to bring it about.
There is something very wrong here and it isn't the mayor. The current US Attorney General Garland will have to review the consent order and perhaps bring those resistent to change and the Rule of Law before the courts.
By Gregory Pratt
A top adviser to Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (click here) resigned in August while raising concerns about the city’s ability to “keep moving the ball forward” on its violence prevention efforts and Police Department consent decree implementation, records obtained by the Tribune show.
Lightfoot’s one-time deputy mayor for public safety, Susan Lee, left that post in fall 2020 but remained involved at City Hall as an unpaid consultant on public safety issues, according to a contract between Lee and the city....
