15th District Police Officer Wants Justice For Austin 7 A Chicago police officer is seeking the media's help to unravel what he says is a web of deception, created by the Chicago Police Department (CPD), which led to the indictment and subsequent conviction of seven police officers in the 15th Police District on the city's West Side 15 years ago. T.C. McCoy, an officer in the 15th District, held a news conference Wednesday outside police headquarters, 3510 S. Michigan Ave., decrying a "conspiracy by the Chicago Police Department" to frame these seven police officers, known as the "Austin 7" in what he calls a flawed police corruption investigation. [continues 784 words]
Regulating drugs will make organized crime rates go down [Talking to Teens: Teens discuss legalization of drugs, Jan. 29]. You don't see a whole lot of alcohol bootleggers anymore. Prohibition just promotes crime on both sides of the law. There have been two very high times of violent crime in the United States. First was at the beginning of the first prohibition (alcohol) and the second was the "Drug War" of the 1970s. Violent crimes decreased at the end of the first prohibition. Not too mention teen cigarette use is down below that of cannabis use, and no one is getting locked up for smoking cigarettes. This proves education works much better than prison. Ray Grill [end]
