Chicago Agreed to a $90 Million Settlement Resolving 176 Wrongful Conviction Lawsuits tied to Police Sgt Ronald Watts; Nearly 200 people (nearly all Black) spent more than 200 years in Prison

ALTHOUGH DO-GOODER REFORMERS OFTEN CLAIM DIVERSE POLICE FORCES ARE A CURE FOR POLICE BRUTALITY, BLACK COPS BRUTALIZE AND HARM BLACK PEOPLE AT A RATE NEARLY EQUAL TO WHITE COPS. SCHOLAR ALEX VITALE STATES, “REFORMERS OFTEN CALL FOR RECRUITING MORE OFFICERS OF COLOR IN THE HOPES THAT THEY WILL TREAT COMMUNITIES WITH GREATER DIGNITY, RESPECT, AND FAIRNESS. UNFORTUNATELY, THERE IS LITTLE EVIDENCE TO BACK UP THIS HOPE. EVEN THE MOST DIVERSE FORCES HAVE MAJOR PROBLEMS WITH RACIAL PROFILING AND BIAS, AND INDIVIDUAL BLACK AND LATINO OFFICERS APPEAR TO PERFORM VERY MUCH LIKE THEIR WHITE COUNTERPARTS.” HE STATES, “THERE IS NOW A LARGE BODY OF EVIDENCE MEASURING WHETHER THE RACE OF THE INDIVIDUAL OFFICERS AFFECTS THEIR USE OF FORCE. MOST STUDIES SHOW NO EFFECT. MORE DISTRESSINGLY, A FEW INDICATE THAT BLACK OFFICERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO USE FORCE OR MAKE ARRESTS, ESPECIALLY OF BLACK CIVILIANS.” [MORE]

CONVERSELY, IT IS RARE FOR A BLACK POLICE OFFICER TO USE EXCESSIVE FORCE AGAINST A WHITE PERSON. IN FACT, ACCORDING TO ANON, IN THE HISTORY OF MODERN LAW ENFORCEMENT THERE HAVE BEEN ONLY A HANDFUL OF INSTANCES OF A BLACK POLICE OFFICER SHOOTING OR KILLING AN UNARMED WHITE PERSON. THIS IS NOT SURPRISING BUT IT IS ABSOLUTE PROOF THAT THE BLACK INDIVIDUAL OPERATING WITHIN A SYSTEM OF WHITE SUPREMACY CANNOT MISTREAT WHITES EVEN IF HE OR SHE IS WEARING A UNIFORM, A BADGE, AND CARRYING A GUN." [MORE] IT ALSO PROOF THAT A BLACK INDIVIDUAL WHOSE POWER COMES SOLELY FROM INDIVIDUAL WHITES OR FROM WHITE ORGANIZATIONS OR BUSINESSES OR FROM GOVERNMENTS CONTROLLED BY WHITE INTERESTS/ELITES CANNOT GENERALLY GET AWAY WITH HARMING A WHITE PERSON. [MORE]

NOT ALL, BUT MANY BLACK COPS ARE OBEDIENT BLACK ROLEBOTS PLUGGED INTO DOGGY'S OPERATING SYSTEM. THEY WORSHIP RULES, GOVERNMENT AND LOGIC WITHIN THE PARAMETERS OF THE LEX-ICON. [MORE] AND [MORE]. THE PRESENCE OF BLACK COPS IS INTENDED TO CREATE ‘THE APPEARANCE OF JUSTICE’ IN A SYSTEM OF INJUSTICE. BLACK COPS EXIST PRIMARILY TO ARREST, SURVEIL AND CONTROL BLACK PEOPLE AND PROVIDE A VENEER OF CIVILITY AND A PRETENSE OF INCLUSION, PROTECTION AND “PUBLIC SERVICE” IN A FREE RANGE PRISON DISGUISED AS A DEMOCRACY [DEMOCKERY].

From [HERE] The City of Chicago has agreed to pay $90 million to settle dozens of wrongful conviction lawsuits tied to former Chicago police Sgt. Ronald Watts and his tactical team.

What we know:

The settlement, which still requires approval from the City Council, would resolve 176 lawsuits involving nearly 200 people who collectively spent more than 200 years in prison. 

Each case stems from false arrests, fabricated evidence and other misconduct by Watts and his unit, city lawyers said.

The lawsuits represent one of the largest police misconduct scandals in Chicago’s history.

Watts and Officer Kallatt Mohammed were indicted in 2012 and later served federal prison sentences. But the fallout has continued for more than a decade as convictions were overturned and many plaintiffs received certificates of innocence.

According to the city’s law department, the agreement would settle about 64% of Chicago’s active wrongful conviction lawsuits.

"The lowest payout is $150,000 and the highest, I believe, is $3.4 million, just over that figure. It might be $3.9… And that's for an individual who spent nearly 10 years in custody. So as I'm sure many of you who cover these types of cases understand, a lot of these settlements are driven by time and custody per year, recent incarceration, et cetera, and that's largely a formula. But a lot in terms of identifying which plaintiff is getting which amount of money is based heavily on discussions and information from the plaintiff's counsel," said Victoria Benson, part of the deputy corporation counsel.