The Chicago Tribune have been digging deep and analysing statistics to find out that in at least 14 clear cut cases, police in Chicago have shit 14 people who did not have a gun despite claims at the time. This is since 2010 and until 2015!
They wrote that “a wrench. An L-shaped object under a towel. Even a Chicago Fire Department badge in a wallet.” have all been mistaken as guns and in 4 cases, the victim has nothing at all!
Their analysis also did not include cases where the victim had a reasonable chance to dispose of a gun.
The Tribune went onto say
To quantify and detail such cases, the Tribune analyzed 235 officer-involved shootings that wounded or killed people over six years using 2010-15 data from the Police Department as well as reports from the Independent Police Review Authority (the agency that investigates officer-involved shootings), court records and findings by the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Those shootings, in which police said the victim had a gun but one was never found, resulted in seven deaths. But that was not the only cost. Lawsuits have been filed in all 14 shootings, and, even with three cases pending, the city already has settled with plaintiffs for more than $15 million — a hefty price for Chicago taxpayers.
Although none of them had guns, six people who survived the shootings were nevertheless charged with aggravated assault of a police officer. Four were either found not guilty or convicted of a lesser crime. One person shot by police, a paramedic, was not charged.
Read more in their report here.
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