A previously secret report from Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability paints a grim picture of the practices of a group of police officers accused of framing scores of South Side residents.
The 33-page COPA report, which was forwarded to Supt. David Brown last March but never publicly released, includes interviews with two accused members of Watts’ crew. The reports notes that one of those officers, Sgt. Alvin Jones, is the subject of misconduct complaints in 64 pending federal lawsuits. Jones was stripped of his police powers last June, records show.
The report notes that when queried specifically about planting drugs on Baker or in his car during the 2005 arrest, Watts asserted his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination. Mohammed, the report notes, also took the Fifth in declining to answer questions about a subsequent arrest. The COPA document references an FBI report dated November 19, 2010, which indicated that in addition to Watts, federal investigators believed that “other officers were directly involved in the extortion of drug dealers’ funds.”
One of those witnesses, Van Jordan, who the report says admitted involvement in the drug trade, stated that a Watts officer routinely came to his apartment to demand drugs, and that Team members made hundreds of similar demands over the course of several years.
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