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Old 17th November 2017, 03:31 PM   #177
Numbers
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One of the false premises of the PGP is that all police officers are honest and ethical. Here's an example of where this was not so:

"State's attorney to dismiss 18 convictions tied to former Chicago police sergeant

In what is believed to be the first mass exoneration in Cook County history, prosecutors on Thursday plan to drop all charges against 15 men who alleged they were framed by corrupt former Chicago police Sgt. Ronald Watts and his crew.
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It comes two months after lawyers for the 15 men filed a joint petition seeking to overturn a total of 18 criminal drug convictions, alleging that Watts and his crew framed all of them between 2003 and 2008. Watts and an officer under his command were sent to federal prison in 2013 for stealing money from a drug courier who'd been working as an FBI informant.

A review of the cases by the state’s attorney’s Conviction Integrity Unit “has shown a pattern of narcotics arrests that raise serious concerns about the validity of the resulting convictions,” a spokesman for Foxx said in a written statement. “Therefore, the State’s Attorney’s Office is vacating the convictions.”"

Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...115-story.html
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