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Chicago Superintendent of Police Philip Cline submitted his resignation today to Mayor Richard M. Daley, who said the law-enforcement chief took responsibility for not reacting faster to videotaped barroom beatings by police officers.
``There is no place in the Chicago Police Department for officers who brutalize the people they've sworn to serve,'' Daley said at a news conference. He said Cline, 57, who has done a ``good job'' in his three years running the department, ``took full responsibility for incidents of police misconduct that have occurred recently.''
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Chicago Tribune - United State
11 August 2006
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Officer accused of misconduct
A Harvey detective was charged with official misconduct Thursday for allegedly trying to stymie a case--part of an ongoing corruption probe--by smuggling a gun out of the police station that had unlawfully been pointed at two police officers, authorities said.
Detective Hollis Dorrough, 37, allegedly handed the weapon--a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol--to a man whose stepson, Anthony Reynolds, was accused in an October incident, authorities said.
Dorrough disposed of the gun after an October meeting with Reynolds, his stepfather and several city officials, including Mayor Eric Kellogg, authorities said. Inside a Police Department room, a city official allegedly told the detective to help Reynolds by returning the gun to him.
The Tribune is not naming the city official because he has not been charged with a crime.
Harvey spokeswoman Sandra Alvarado did not return calls seeking comment.
Kellogg has publicly denied that he had a hand in the gun's disappearance.
Thursday's charge comes after months of criticism of the Harvey Police Department, which failed to solve any of the city's nine homicides last year and has seen its commanders linked to gangs and rogue parking operations. Aldermen recently pushed through a controversial resolution calling on Kellogg and police Chief Andrew Joshua to request that the state police conduct an audit of the struggling department.
"If they are police officers that are hired to protect us and are then turning themselves around to protect the criminals, then mister, we are in very bad shape," resolution sponsor Ald. Ronald Waters (6th) said. "It just seems like there is a carousel of corruption taking place and we have to stop this merry-go-round."
A county public integrity task force is investigating the gun disappearance and other alleged corruption in city government and the Police Department.
Dorrough was arrested Thursday at the Markham courthouse on a misconduct charge that carries up to 5 years in prison if convicted, said John Gorman, Cook County state's attorney's office spokesman.
Reynolds, 29, was charged in October with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and unlawful use of a weapon by a felon after authorities said he pointed a gun at two Harvey police officers.
Reynolds, who made bail after that arrest, also is charged in the killing of a man found at a South Holland carwash in April, authorities said.
Prosecutors realized the gun was missing in June as they prepared to try Reynolds, an alleged gang member with prior convictions, on charges of attempted burglary and attempted murder.
Shortly after the October meeting in the Police Department, Reynolds' stepfather called Dorrough and allegedly had him hand over the gun outside the Harvey police station, officials said.
Dorrough is not the first Harvey officer to get in hot water with prosecutors in the last year. In November, Cmdr. Merritt Gentry was accused by a defense attorney of being a Vice Lord, claiming the officer ripped open his shirt to expose gang tattoos to intimidate a murder suspect.
Gentry denied an affiliation with the gang.
Dorrough is scheduled to appear Friday in Bond Court in the Markham courthouse.
Reynolds has an Aug. 21 court date.
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