CPD Officer’s Resignation Raises Questions About Pension

By Chip Mitchell
Detective’s recommended firing owes to public pressure, his attorney says
Chicago Det. Dante Servin, last year, hears a Cook County judge acquit him of criminal charges in his fatal shooting of Rekia Boyd, 22. The Chicago Police Board announced the resignation of Det. Dante Servin this summer. Pool photo by John J. Kim, Chicago Tribune
Detective’s recommended firing owes to public pressure, his attorney says
Chicago Det. Dante Servin, last year, hears a Cook County judge acquit him of criminal charges in his fatal shooting of Rekia Boyd, 22. The Chicago Police Board announced the resignation of Det. Dante Servin this summer. Pool photo by John J. Kim, Chicago Tribune

CPD Officer’s Resignation Raises Questions About Pension

By Chip Mitchell
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An embattled Chicago police detective is resigning just before a city hearing on whether to fire him. Dante Servin shot and killed a 22-year-old named Rekia Boyd in 2012. A Police Board hearing on whether to fire the detective was set to begin Thursday.

His attorney said Servin didn’t do anything wrong but said the cards were still stacked against Servin. So the detective quit Tuesday before he could be fired.