CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — The City of Chicago has just released an unredacted, 33-page report on the conduct of police officers.
Attorney Joel Flaxman, who represents dozens of people who say they were framed by police, said the report shows the city was aware of police misconduct — but spent millions in court to defend lawsuits against the police.
Chicago has been under court order to release the unredacted report. Flaxman said the report is “an important step in transparency and accountability.”
“It’s very important that it’s finally public, that the city has concluded that at least one of these officers did what we all have been alleging this whole time,” Flaxman said.
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Flaxman said the report focuses on Sgt. Alvin Jones, who has retired.
Jones was an associate of Sgt. Ronald Watts, the leader of the crew.
The unredacted report, Flaxman said, is “very powerful evidence in pending litigation that these officers really did commit this misconduct.”
Flaxman said it poses a difficult question for the city:
“To say, on one hand, we’ve concluded that this real misconduct occurred and this officer should be terminated,” Flaxman said. “On the other hand, we’re going to spend millions of dollars defending these lawsuits in court.”
A spokesperson for the City of Chicago’s Law Department said they have no comment.
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