More reasons why Chicago is such a "great" place

phragle

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nurse arrested, in the ER, for following the law.... and he didn't even bother to file a report...

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1782491,nurse-lawsuit-cop-cuff-drawing-blood-092109.article

A head emergency room nurse at Advocate Illinois Masonic Hospital has sued the city and a Chicago Police officer for handcuffing her and putting her in the back of a squad car during a dispute over drawing blood from a suspected drunken driver.
Lisa Hofstra said she was the “charge nurse” in the emergency room on Aug. 1 when the officer approached her at about 4 a.m. The officer requested she perform a blood work-up on a DUI suspect, the lawsuit said.
Hofstra told the officer the suspect needed to be admitted to the hospital before she could draw the person’s blood. Hofstra said she told a police lieutenant that it was the hospital’s protocol to wait until a suspect was admitted, and the lieutenant agreed, she said.
The lieutenant left the emergency room.
Then Hofstra called her supervisors, but before they could respond, the officer put her in handcuffs in front of her co-workers and escorted her to a squad car, according to the lawsuit.
“I in no way intended to block this police officer’s ability to do his job,” she said in a news conference today. “He went about it in the wrong way. ... I would like him to be reprimanded.”
Hofstra said she filed her lawsuit in federal court last month in an effort to have the officer punished for violating her rights.
She was in the car for about 45 minutes before the situation was resolved, Hofstra said. The cuffs were too tight, requiring treatment in the hospital after she was released from custody, she said.
A security video of the incident shows the officer smiling outside the squad car as Hofstra sat inside.
“He feels comfortable about smiling when he just illegally arrested someone,” said Hofstra’s attorney Blake Horwitz. “He is enjoying his power.”
The Independent Police Review Authority is investigating the incident. Hofstra said the authority’s investigators have been interviewing witnesses to the incident.
No police report was filed, and no charges were filed, Horwitz said. But he characterized his client as being wrongly arrested.
The lawsuit, filed Aug. 25, gives only a last name for the officer. Roderick Drew, a spokesman for the police department, said he was prohibited from identifying the officer under union rules.
Hofstra said she normally has a good relationship with police officers at the hospital, where she’s been an emergency room nurse since November 2008.
Hofstra said it was a major problem for her to be removed from the emergency room at a time when there were numerous patients suffering from “bad trauma.”
She was responsible for triage — the process of deciding which patients need the most urgent attention.
“If this officer is treating me the way he treated me, what is he going to do to people on the street?” Hofstra said, adding
 
For some reason, every politician believes that what we always need is more laws, and more police. And, for some reason, this always sounds good to the people that vote them into office.

I personally want them to only uphold the laws that are already in place, and review the validity of the laws. Repeal those that are not actually contributing to society, and are only contributing to the county/state fund.

When did it become that our representatives became "lawmakers" ?
I thought we elected them to uphold the law, not create new ones.
This has been a long time that they have thought they were elected to "create laws" and "Committees" and "Czars".
I thought you were supposed to be elected to uphold the current laws.
Guess I'd never make a good polotician.

Sorry Rob, I may have taken your thread on a tangent, but I think you can relate on this topic, because I feel it is very related.
 
Not trying to be the new defender of Chicago, but it's the third largest city in the US. Imagine how many crappy cops there are.

Now imagine New York, and LA


(and of course Ft. Worth.) ;)
 
Not trying to be the new defender of Chicago, but it's the third largest city in the US. Imagine how many crappy cops there are.

Now imagine New York, and LA


(and of course Ft. Worth.) ;)

One thing I'l give you about Chicago. There are areas they concentrate on, like Rush Street and the Magic Mile, where I feel completely safe....
 
One thing I'l give you about Chicago. There are areas they concentrate on, like Rush Street and the Magic Mile, where I feel completely safe....
I always stay near Michigan. I have never had a problem. I mean... there is a huge difference between the south side of chicago and downtown.
I like the courtyard by marriott at Ontario and Ohio. One block from Michigan. The parking garage is the first nine floors and the pool is the tenth, so the rooms start nice and high where it's quieter.
I have had no trouble walking many blocks in any direction from there. Even almost walked all the way to the Navy Pier once. (Before giving up)
But I walked so far away from downtown that I actually saw (gulp) vacancies and a non-tourist McDonalds. :D :D I'll admit that I don't walk like a good victim.
 
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