Sergeant concedes Palatine police "got an innocent man to confess"
"Are you telling me that a perfectly innocent person in the custody of the Palatine Police Department can confess to a crime that he absolutely did not commit?" defense attorney Clarence Burch asked Palatine Sgt. Steve Bratcher on the stand."Yes," Bratcher replied, sending a slight rumble through the courtroom gallery. Bratcher, the son of then-Palatine Police Chief Jerry Bratcher(taken shortly after May 2002 arrest).
Since when is this conduct legal?
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/print/?id=46535
2003 my arrest by cops that were hallucinating, and the village coverup that followed
2009 another hallucinating cop, this one mulls down a
pedestrain in the middle of a 7 lane highway at 3:30 am, can't arrest this poor guy, cause he's in a coma.
Need help, call a cop?
I would bet thousands more.of Palatine arrests contain garbage.
These are not good people, what do you do? Popular choice is to go along, ignore, be apart of it, cover up, let it continue, let's not worry about the next nightmare, who know maybe it wont happen?
."Enable" is the problem, what ever, who ever, the enabler is always the problem.
The village and courts enables the police to have reckless conduct, the citizens enable the village and courts to have reckless conduct. Citizens, folks, with all our baggage, we must collectively vote a change, or impeach, to enable a change.
But if we are lacking moral values, honesty, love and help your neighbor, we are stuck.
Now, in 2009, has anything changed?......don't look like it, not yet any way.