Allegations of misconduct trouble Chicago Police Department

Allegations of misconduct trouble Chicago Police Department
The Chicago Police Department is under added scrutiny after two independent cases of police misconduct recently surfaced. Flickr/Thomas Hawk
Allegations of misconduct trouble Chicago Police Department
The Chicago Police Department is under added scrutiny after two independent cases of police misconduct recently surfaced. Flickr/Thomas Hawk

Allegations of misconduct trouble Chicago Police Department

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Chicago Police interim Superintendant Terry Hillard has had a rough few weeks. He’s had to deal with at least two public cases of police misconduct. The first was broken by WBEZ, after uncovering a video which appears to show police allowing the intimidation of a young man in their custody. Then came allegations of sexual assault—two officers are being investigated for the sexual assault of a 22-year-old woman on the far North Side.

To find out what these cases mean for the Chicago Police Department, Eight Forty-Eight spoke to Chicago Sun-Times crime reporter Frank Main.