New CPD Superintendent Larry Snelling looks back at lessons learned from his own disciplinary cases as he takes department helm
It was around 7 a.m. on Thursday, May 12, 1994.
Two officers assigned to the Chicago Police Department’s Englewood District were to take two arrestees to the neighboring Chicago Lawn District station to be photographed.
One of the men, arrested on a domestic violence charge, tried to chat with the officers during the 2 ½-mile drive west on 63rd Street. The officer in the front passenger seat wasn’t in the mood to make friends.
“Do you take me as a joke, m----------?” he said to the handcuffed arrestee. “Do you think you know everything?”
The other officer pulled over the van, and both cops got out and opened the vehicle’s side door. The officer from the passenger seat — 25 years old, with two years on the job — then slapped the man twice on the left side of his
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