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By Margaret Lyons in News on Sep 27, 2007 11:08PM

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Three women are suing an off-duty police officer who they claim physically assaulted them and called them, as the Sun Times so eloquently puts it "d---- and b------." Covering an alleged hate crime, no biggie; printing the word "bitch," totally taboo.

Harvey police officers neglected to do any police work. They had DNA evidence against a sex offender, but they "never sought charges against the man, who later raped a woman in Chicago."

Hey, is that a raccoon? Yes. Ah, just keep painting. No one will notice.

Private eyes clap clap waaaaatching you clap clap watching your eeeevery move, yeah-ah—well, police eyes. But same difference. They're watchin' you, watchin' you....

Someone stole railroad spikes from the Metra tracks. Apparently that's really bad. Ruhroh!

Just when you thought police torture cases couldn't get more fucked up, turns out they totally can.


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