Attorney: Mayor Can End Police Code of Silence

November 13, 2012 9:38 PM
Attorney: Mayor Can End Police Code of Silence

" A lawyer for a bartender who won an $850,000 settlement in a landmark civil trial against the city of Chicago said it's now the mayor's responsibility to put an end to a code of silence in the police department.

"The only way you're going to see change in the Chicago Police Department is if the mayor dictates it and wants it, but if it's left to the devices of the leadership of the Chicago Police Department [and] the [Fraternal Order of Police], there will be no change," said attorney Terry Ekl.

Jurors on Tuesday afternoon returned with a finding that the city's tolerance of the code emboldened off-duty officer Anthony Abbate to beat Karolina Obrycka "

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