Posted on 08/25/2011 12:29:28 AM PDT by Immerito
A former stripper, who secretly recorded two Chicago Police Internal Affairs investigators while filing a sexual harassment complaint against another officer was acquitted on eavesdropping charges Wednesday.
“I’m feeling a lot better now,” a smiling Tiawanda Moore said after a Cook County jury returned the verdict in a little over an hour.
The 20-year-old Indiana woman admitted she taped the officers on her Blackberry in August of last year. But she said she only did it because the investigators were coaxing her to not go forward with her complaint.
“I wanted him to be fired,” Moore testified of the cop she alleges fondled her and gave her his phone number during a domestic battery call at the South Side residence she sometimes shares with her boyfriend.
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And Illinois has so much that it would prefer go unrecorded.
Yep, eavesdropping laws allow government employees to lie, cheat and commit crimes without pesky evidence thwarting them.
Police shouldn’t be the ones investigating police misconduct. Even internal affairs are police officers, and can’t be trusted to be objective. Like letting a judge try his own brother.
Remember that in the Arizona swat shooting, the puma county police investigated the actions of the puma county police. Doesn’t that just sound a little off?
Do away with internal affairs and create a group critical of police to investigate police. If cops don’t like that, then they have something to hide.
Oh yeah, the community organizer would love to get his hands on that.
Chicago cops are Mob protectors.
Maybe not that far, but at least have the investigators be with the state attorney-general's office, to provide at least some distance from the local police hierarchy and local politics.
Blackberrys have cassette slots? Or was it the Reel-to-Reel Blackberry?
Would you rather let cops continue to police their own? That hasn’t worked out so well. No group is good at policing their own. Not doctors, judges, congressmen, and certainly not cops.
I’m not asking to let criminals police cops, but maybe cops shouldn’t be trusted to police themselves.
It was prolly one of the older coal-fired models.
Just sayin’...carefull what you wish for. I know what the left will do with this new power you propose.
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