Is The Chicago Media Biased Against The CPD?
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The Chicago newspapers are quick to run a story when a person merely makes allegations of police misconduct. Yet, those same newspapers are not so quick to run a story when it is shown that such allegations were false and there was no police misconduct. The recent case of Jerry Miller is a good example of this bias. Miller sued several now-retired Chicago police officers alleging that they framed him for a rape back in 1982. Miller spent 26 years in prison for the crime that DNA has now shown he did not commit. A federal district court judge recently granted the police officers' motion for summary judgment finding there to be no evidence of police misconduct as a matter of law. If the police had lost this case, this story would have been front page news. Yet, incredibly, when the police officers won this case, the Chicago Sun-Times made no mention of the case at all. This is despite the fact that Sun-Times federal court reporter Natasha Korecki - one who is quick to report about alleged police misconduct - was notified of the 26 page legal opinion. Korecki and the Sun-Times chose not to report on the case and the police officers' victory. Does this seem fair to the CPD? We don't think so. What do you think?
