Police Corruption, Misconduct, and Brutality in Chicago

                                     Corruption, Abuse, Misconduct by Law enforcement  

There is a lot of wrong doing in American law enforcement such as police corruption, police misconduct, and police brutality. There have been several cases of these in different police departments, around the country.

                                               Police corruption, misconduct, and brutality in Chicago

There was a case of all three of these things happening in the city of Chicago. This is the case of the shooting of Laquan McDonald 17, by a police officer who had shot him 16 times, this happened in the fall of 2014. The police officer that shot and killed the young man said he was wielding a knife, so the officer felt threatened and shot him. The dashboard camera in the officer’s car caught the whole incident that happened. The Police Department that the officer worked for wouldn’t release any details about the officer except that the officer was going to have charges brought against this officer for murder i9n this shooting. This city has had a long history over the past 30 to 40 years of corruption, misconduct, and police brutality under Police Commander Jon Burge, and some officers under his command at the time. They terrorized many police departments and citizens of Chicago, during his reign as police Commander, he was fired in 1993, the city counsel of Chicago, has put together a several million dollar package to pay some of those past victims.

                                                         Police Misconduct in Albuquerque

 In the fall of 2013, there was a shooting one of many by the Albuquerque police department. A robbery suspect in Albuquerque, New Mexico, had been shot at by a police officer apparently the robbery suspect had a gun and was told by the officer to toss it in the air then the officer shot at the victim 8 times. This officer was wearing a body camera that captured the whole incident on camera, apparently the officer had fired at the victim at least 4 times before the victim had tossed his gun then the camera shows the officer shot 4 more times after the victim dropped his weapon.  The city of Albuquerque has paid out millions in lawsuits because of a corrupt police department; there have been many questionable incidents with this Police Department over the years. The officer involved in the shooting is being charged with murder, the police department tried to cover up the wrong doing by saying that the robbery suspect whose name was Joaquin Ortega 35, had pointed the gun at the officer.  In the video of the confrontation between the officer and the victim, there was UN professionalism in the way that the officer spoke to the victim; there was excessive use of force, police corruption with the police department.