[shockeychap]

> Hell, I've seen complaints get dropped -- despite videos proof attached to the complaint -- that show cops slamming a kid against a wall and threatening to beat the kid up. Because the person getting slammed against a wall didn't know the badge number.

If there was video evidence of a cop slamming a kid against a wall, why was this not used to identify the officer? This seems like a pretty outrageous claim that demands specifics - where and when did this happen - and citation of sources.

EDIT: Fixed grammar

[chaps]

Your guess is as good as mine, man.

But -- I saw the video, I saw the cop's face, I saw his partner's face, and the faces of the cops who were also dispatched, I saw the reports, I've seen the dispatch data, I've seen the assignment sheets, I've seen the car number, the GPS logs, etc etc. It should have been easy, but...

Mind you, the only reason we have these docs is because a FOIA lawsuit that required their release, among about a hundred thousand other complaints, while the city's FOP was pushing to destroy those documents.

Your guess is as good as mine.

[shockeychap]

You’ve seen a lot of things. So can you provide sources for any of these things? Most importantly, where did this happen and when?

[chaps]

I'm a reporter who works very specifically on policing and jailing in Chicago, and have spent years FOIAing these documents, and thousands of hours reading through them, and just as many in SQL/python. It hurts to the core reading it all. If you want me to share my reporting around these issues, I'm more than happy to. If you don't trust my reporting, I can share other reporters'.

It happened in Chicago outside of someone's home after the mom called the cops on her son. Her mom was the person who filed the complaint.

These stories are everywhere. https://cpdp.co is a good place to start looking.

[Clubber]

>why was this not used to identify the officer?

The machine protects itself.