Chicago Police Department Steeped in Blood

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. 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. 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.

Come on cops: purge the ranks. Your brotherhood is rank. This ain’t LA. Ditch the thugs. They’ll find jobs: I hear Blackwater is hiring.