Thread: Chicago council passes resolution to investigate PD

RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING HEARINGS ON CITY OF CHICAGO PERSONNEL INVOLVEMENT IN ENFORCING DEFECTIVE FEDERAL POLICY


WHEREAS, The City of Chicago, through its Mayor and City Council, have passed numerous resolutions and ordinances in order to insure that the Chicago Police Department and other municipal personnel are not involved in the enforcement of Federal immigration laws, and



WHEREAS, This stance has been taken in the interest of maintaining the relationship of trust and confidence between those personnel and the communities they serve which is vital to effective service and law enforcement; and



WHEREAS, Both the Mayor and the City Council are fully aware and through resolutions have evinced the belief that current federal immigration policies are defective and are in the process of revision and reform; and



WHEREAS, In the interim, it is in the interest of all citizens of this city that the legislative and executive branch of the City of Chicago respect the human rights of all of residents within its municipal boundaries; and



WHEREAS, Both branches of municipal government are especially sensitive to the issue that the racial profiling necessary to enforce such existing federal immigration policy is strictly contrary to Section 84-086 of the City of Chicago Municipal Code specifically prohibiting this practice by members of the Chicago Police Department, peace officers or securit5r personnel within the city's corporate boundaries since June 6,2001; and



WHEREAS, In spite of this clear and forthright prohibition, numerous accounts of involvement by Chicago Police Department personnel inquiring into and investigating immigration status and involving themselves in reporting procedures to the Department of Homeland Security have been alleged; and



WHEREAS, The Community and Intergovernmental Commission on Latino Immigrant Rights, a commission of Latino community leaders and Latino elected officials, has requested that the City Council hold hearings on these allegations and on the implementation of various state, county and _ctþ, p_o_ljg_igl¿"lie!99 !q prgIgq! Ê9 hqryl rr_eþlq of chicaso residg4!_s. -qqd 9qfor99,_th9 prohfb_illon 01 racrat pronlmg even wtnln tne current environment or me capnclous ana afDlfrary use of current national immigration laws; now, therefore



BE IT RESOLVED That we, the Mayor and members of the City of Chicago City Council, assembled here this 9th Day of July, 2008 AD, do hereby call for joint committee hearings to be held with all deliberate speed and due public notice on any and all involvement by swom City of Chicago personnel in inquiries or investigations of the immigration status of individuals with whom they come in contact and on any and all involvement of City of Chicago personnel in reporting said individuals to federal authorities.



BE IT FURTI{ER RESOLVED, That City of Chicago Department Heads make themselves available for questioning by the committees during the course of the hearings.



BE IT FURTIIER RESOLVED, That a public report of these hearings be issued along with recommendations for additional legislation of the full City Council, if such recommendations are deemed necessary.

WHEREAS, In spite of this clear and forthright prohibition, numerous accounts of involvement by Chicago Police Department personnel inquiring into and investigating immigration status and involving themselves in reporting procedures to the Department of Homeland Security have been alleged; and

Don't federal laws trump city laws when it comes to law enforcement? I think the feds should investigate the city of Chicago for violating federal laws.

WHEREAS, The City of Chicago, being a bunch of illegal alien pandering, scumbag politicians whose responsibility to Americans is less than they are beholden to big money special interests and ethno-centric based organizations, and

WHEREAS, The City of Chicago, now a third world emulating, corrupt banana municipality, cares more for cheap labor than for the lives of the people they are sworn to serve

BE IT RESOLVED, To tell the taxpayers and law abiding, legal residents of this city to GO TO HELL.

This is creeping anarchy.

unbelievable! I think should the FEDs investigate cities like Chicago for corruption, they'd be tied up for 100 years!

let us also mention, chicago's sales tax is one of the highest at 10.25%. i personally do not go to chicago unless absolutely forced.

Originally Posted by alamb

unbelievable! I think should the FEDs investigate cities like Chicago for corruption, they'd be tied up for 100 years!

It's getting to the point the investigators are corrupt too! We have no one to turn to anymore.