A real-life Training Day minus Denzel Washington: A corrupt cop in Chicago leads to nearly 200 wrongful convictions.
At some point in the early 2000s, Chicago police Sgt. Ronald Watts and a group of cops began charging people in and around a now demolished housing project with crimes they did not commit. Even faking evidence of gun and drug crimes. They did this for about a decade.
Since 2016, Chicago area prosecutors have moved to dismiss at least 226 convictions all tied to Watts. That’s the largest series of exonerations in that city’s history. But what’s justice and what happens to Watts.
Chicago has a long history with corruption whether it be from “gangsters” like Al Capone or within the Chicago Police Department. The Exoneration Project’s Sean Star has taken an in-depth look at the history of Chicago’s police corruption and the impact of Watts’ actions with Shantell Nile, the sister of the late JaJuan Nile. JaJuan Nile who did time in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of cocaine possession.
Question: What should happen to ALL of the convictions that a corrupt cop generated by his “arrests”? As of now, Watts and his team are believed to be responsible for the wrongful prosecutions of 183 people whose sentences altogether were equal to more than 400 years.
That number doesn’t include their pretrial detention or probation in at least 10 bootcamp sentences. Despite all this, Watts isn’t behind bars.
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