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Corrupt cops in Chicago are using community "buyback guns" program to frame victims
Posted on 7/29/17 at 2:37 pm
Posted on 7/29/17 at 2:37 pm
alot more in the article. pretty damning evidence.
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Thirteen years ago, William Stewart Boyd, a Cook County judge, drove to a South Side church to turn in a handgun his late father had owned.
The Chicago Police Department was accepting guns as part of a buyback program meant to take weapons off the streets and help make the city safer.
Boyd, who hears domestic relations cases, brought them his father’s .38-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver, serial number J515268. He remembers handing it to plainclothes officers who wore their badges and service weapons on their belts. Under the buyback program, they, in turn, gave him a prepaid Visa card. It was for less than $100.
The police recover thousands of guns every year, many of them through buyback programs like this, as well as by confiscating weapons seized during arrests — more than 5,000 guns so far this year alone.
The guns are supposed to be destroyed. But the gun Judge Boyd took in somehow wasn’t. Instead, it turned up eight years later next to the body of a young man who was shot to death by a Cicero police officer.
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The cop — Officer Donald Garrity, who, records show, had a history of discipline problems — is now out of the suburban department and collecting a disability pension as a result of post-traumatic stress he blames on the shooting.
How did a gun Chicago cops were supposed to have kept in a locked custody room and then destroyed end up all of those years later at the scene of a police shooting in Cicero, on a patch of pavement next to the body of a 22-year-old Latin Counts gang member named Cesar A. Munive?
That’s something that Boyd, a judge for nearly 20 years, would like to know.
“I’m doing the right thing,” he says, “and, in the process, someone didn’t do what they were supposed to do. That calls into question the process. What’s happening after you turn these weapons in?”
Police departments in Harvey, Elmwood Park and Dolton all have had guns vanish in recent years. And long before Boyd’s gun disappeared, a city audit found that the Chicago Police Department lost track of more than 130 guns that were stored at an evidence warehouse in the 1990s. Four of those later were seized during arrests.
Now, the Chicago department has opened an internal affairs investigation into how the judge’s revolver ended up in Cicero — something police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi calls “extremely abnormal and troublesome.”
After being informed by a reporter where the gun ended up, Guglielmi says: “We are opening an internal affairs investigation today to trace this gun, verify that it was taken into police custody during a turn-in and investigate how it possibly ended up back on the street.”
Whatever happened to keep the gun from being destroyed, Munive’s family members believe they know how it ended up next to his body. It was planted there by Cicero police to cover up an unjustified shooting by a cop of an unarmed man, according to a civil rights lawsuit the family filed in federal court.
Now, after five years of litigation, Cicero officials are poised to pay the family $3.5 million to settle their case. The Cicero Town Council agreed earlier this month to approve the settlement and is expected to take a final vote soon.
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Thirteen years ago, William Stewart Boyd, a Cook County judge, drove to a South Side church to turn in a handgun his late father had owned.
The Chicago Police Department was accepting guns as part of a buyback program meant to take weapons off the streets and help make the city safer.
Boyd, who hears domestic relations cases, brought them his father’s .38-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver, serial number J515268. He remembers handing it to plainclothes officers who wore their badges and service weapons on their belts. Under the buyback program, they, in turn, gave him a prepaid Visa card. It was for less than $100.
The police recover thousands of guns every year, many of them through buyback programs like this, as well as by confiscating weapons seized during arrests — more than 5,000 guns so far this year alone.
The guns are supposed to be destroyed. But the gun Judge Boyd took in somehow wasn’t. Instead, it turned up eight years later next to the body of a young man who was shot to death by a Cicero police officer.
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The cop — Officer Donald Garrity, who, records show, had a history of discipline problems — is now out of the suburban department and collecting a disability pension as a result of post-traumatic stress he blames on the shooting.
How did a gun Chicago cops were supposed to have kept in a locked custody room and then destroyed end up all of those years later at the scene of a police shooting in Cicero, on a patch of pavement next to the body of a 22-year-old Latin Counts gang member named Cesar A. Munive?
That’s something that Boyd, a judge for nearly 20 years, would like to know.
“I’m doing the right thing,” he says, “and, in the process, someone didn’t do what they were supposed to do. That calls into question the process. What’s happening after you turn these weapons in?”
Police departments in Harvey, Elmwood Park and Dolton all have had guns vanish in recent years. And long before Boyd’s gun disappeared, a city audit found that the Chicago Police Department lost track of more than 130 guns that were stored at an evidence warehouse in the 1990s. Four of those later were seized during arrests.
Now, the Chicago department has opened an internal affairs investigation into how the judge’s revolver ended up in Cicero — something police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi calls “extremely abnormal and troublesome.”
After being informed by a reporter where the gun ended up, Guglielmi says: “We are opening an internal affairs investigation today to trace this gun, verify that it was taken into police custody during a turn-in and investigate how it possibly ended up back on the street.”
Whatever happened to keep the gun from being destroyed, Munive’s family members believe they know how it ended up next to his body. It was planted there by Cicero police to cover up an unjustified shooting by a cop of an unarmed man, according to a civil rights lawsuit the family filed in federal court.
Now, after five years of litigation, Cicero officials are poised to pay the family $3.5 million to settle their case. The Cicero Town Council agreed earlier this month to approve the settlement and is expected to take a final vote soon.
Posted on 7/29/17 at 2:41 pm to silverdude
For years on here I was an ardent hater of all things criminal by cops....
...then came BLM and their asshatery.
Cops: "Hold my beer."
...then came BLM and their asshatery.
Cops: "Hold my beer."
Posted on 7/29/17 at 2:41 pm to silverdude
How someone could throw away their fathers gun for a 100 dollar prepaid visa is beyond me, this guy is a judge? Stupid frick
Posted on 7/29/17 at 2:44 pm to CptBengal
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For years on here I was an ardent hater of all things criminal by cops....
I remember how obsessed you were with corrupt cops.
You damn near had a daily thread on them on here and the OT.
Posted on 7/29/17 at 2:44 pm to silverdude
Dude wtf, there is no hope for that city. Either the cop used it as a plant or they sold the guns back into the hands of criminals. Either way..
Posted on 7/29/17 at 2:49 pm to silverdude
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The cop — Officer Donald Garrity, who, records show, had a history of discipline problems — is now out of the suburban department and collecting a disability pension as a result of post-traumatic stress he blames on the shooting.
Posted on 7/29/17 at 2:54 pm to CptBengal
quote:Seems like it would be easy to be against both.
For years on here I was an ardent hater of all things criminal by cops....
...then came BLM and their asshatery.
Posted on 7/29/17 at 2:55 pm to CptBengal
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For years on here I was an ardent hater of all things criminal by cops....
...then came BLM and their asshatery.
This...
Every 25 years or so this country usually goes through an "escalation of force" review for law enforcement agencies. Kind of a reset. Most have no problem with this. If BLM would have taken that approach their cause would have been better received. Instead they chose the extermination/murder of cops mantra.
The OP presents a problem as old as time. Positional power abuse that isn't isolated to just LE. Been going on forever.
Posted on 7/29/17 at 2:59 pm to buckeye_vol
I really wish Sessions would focus on dirty cops. Good policy because dirty cops undermine the rule of law. Good politics because there are plenty of stories like this in ultra-blue utopias and it's a chance to embarrass progressives. And if you can pull even 15-20% of the black vote (which is possible if you start cracking down on clearly dirty cops), the Dims are toast.
Posted on 7/29/17 at 3:06 pm to silverdude
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Officer Donald Garrity, who, records show, had a history of discipline problems
Why are police officers allowed to remain employed with a history of discipline problems?
Thanx police unions.
Posted on 7/29/17 at 3:09 pm to Pinecone Repair
Big government piggery-thuggery.
Posted on 7/29/17 at 3:13 pm to silverdude
I beez a judge and got me a prepay card for my daddy pistol
Posted on 7/29/17 at 3:19 pm to silverdude
Can't throw a blanket over all cops for one case.
Some people of all races are bad.
Some cops of all races are bad
Not all people or cops are bad.
Thread title should state "one alleged corrupt cop" allegedly used a ....
Some people of all races are bad.
Some cops of all races are bad
Not all people or cops are bad.
Thread title should state "one alleged corrupt cop" allegedly used a ....
Posted on 7/29/17 at 3:25 pm to silverdude
How can the government 'buyback' something it has never owned?
Just another subtle way language is used to indoctrinate and send a message.
Just another subtle way language is used to indoctrinate and send a message.
This post was edited on 7/29/17 at 3:27 pm
Posted on 7/29/17 at 3:25 pm to silverdude
If Chicago can't explain where the gun came from then there's no way they can blame the cop. I would think this would lead to a massive lawsuit against the city. Good job big government. Really taking care of people.
Posted on 7/29/17 at 3:29 pm to beaverfever
Also it sounds like Chicago has had some excellent community organizers lately.
Posted on 7/29/17 at 4:11 pm to Iosh
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collecting a disability pension as a result of post-traumatic stress he blames on the shooting.
new one for me. I love the "I felt my life was in danger" defence. Do these guys put on panties before they go to work? SMH
Posted on 7/29/17 at 4:19 pm to silverdude
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The cop — Officer Donald Garrity, who, records show, had a history of discipline problems — is now out of the suburban department and collecting a disability pension as a result of post-traumatic stress he blames on the shooting.
Apparently covering up a murder is very stressful.
Posted on 7/29/17 at 4:45 pm to silverdude
The rest of that article is just as crazy.
He got promoted to detective after the shooting. So, he was making $57k at the time of the shooting and is now on disability getting $55k.
Also, he should have never even been employed by Chicago PD.
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Garrity was making $84,707 a year when he left the department — nearly $27,000 more than he made as a patrol officer. That higher pay boosted his yearly disability payments to $55,000.
He got promoted to detective after the shooting. So, he was making $57k at the time of the shooting and is now on disability getting $55k.
Also, he should have never even been employed by Chicago PD.
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Garrity had resigned as a Berwyn cop in May 2008 after being arrested by North Riverside officers who pursued him as he sped down Cermak Road in his personal car, records show.
Records also show that, while still with the Berwyn police, Garrity was once investigated for violating orders by wielding a high-powered rifle during a felony traffic stop.
“This police officer should not have been a police officer,” says Loevy, the Munive family attorney. “They are going to pay a substantial settlement as a result of this . . . shooting.”
This post was edited on 7/29/17 at 4:47 pm
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