IPRA recommends Chicago cop be fired for off-duty shooting

[Newsjock]

Source: Chicago Tribune

The city agency that investigates the most serious misconduct allegations against Chicago police officers has recommended for the first time in its nearly eight-year history that an officer be fired for shooting someone.

The Independent Police Review Authority found that the off-duty officer was "inattentive to duty" when he fired 16 shots at the wrong car moments after a drive-by shooting outside a Mexican restaurant in the East Ukrainian Village neighborhood in 2011. The officer was working security at the restaurant.

The case against the officer hinges largely on video footage obtained from a surveillance camera at the restaurant that IPRA said clearly showed a red Mitsubishi Galant had fled the drive-by shooting by the time the officer opened fire at a blue Chrysler 300M car, wounding its driver.

Even after viewing the video earlier this year, the officer stuck by his original statement that he had fired at the red car, prompting IPRA to recommend that he be fired as well for making false statements to investigators.

Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-cop-firing-off-duty-shooting-met-20150629-story.html

[cstanleytech]

1. Damn right he should be fired. nt

[Joe Chi Minh]

2. Can it really be true that they are holding their officers to such a high standard?

My! My! Whatever next? All over the world, people will be smiling at such a thought. Alice through the looking-glass. Stay classy, American police.

[A Simple Game]

3. Fired? Don't you automatically lose your job when you have been arrested and jailed

for attempted murder?

Can someone tell me what would have happened to a civilian that fired 16 shots at a car and wounded the innocent driver?

I admit my thinking has been wrong for years, I have thought cops should be held to a higher standard, I now think they should only be held to the same standards as the rest of us.

[Shamash]

4. Nope

They should be held to a higher standard, we're just trying to get them held to the same standard as the rest of us first.

Or I suppose we could ask them how they feel about letting everyone else getting to use the standards they are actually held to right now.

[A Simple Game]

5. Letting everyone else use their standards? Wouldn't that be called anarchy? n/t