Off-duty Chicago cop shot outside home was set to retire
Police Officer Michael Bailey was less than a month away from retirement when he ended an overnight shift guarding the mayor’s home early Sunday morning. This photo provided by the Chicago Police Department shows Officer Michael Bailey, who was off-duty when he was shot and killed early Sunday morning, July 18, 2010, on his way home from a shift. (AP Photo/Chicago Police Department The 62-year-old had recently developed a routine: He’d park outside his South Side home, lock his bulletproof vest in the trunk and wipe down the shiny black Buick Regal he’d bought just three weeks ago to celebrate the quieter life he …Read more […..]
Our hero: The life of a cop
BY MICHAEL SNEED Sun-Times Columnist What price do we pay when one is sacrificed? We don’t pay. We get fleeced, robbed of a human being who decided to make his life’s work protecting each one of us. Michael Sneed The fact that Officer Thor Soderberg, who was killed with his own weapon Wednesday during an apparent robbery outside a South Side police facility, died a hero is little consolation to his family and friends. A police officer might become a hero when the oath to serve and protect is taken, but there is also another measure of their heroism. It’s the evil, degradation and horror …Read more […..]
Canadian Mother Who Strangled Daughter Won’t Be Jailed, Judge Rules
Handout Aminat Magomadova, 14, is seen in an undated photograph. A judge’s decision to free a Canadian mother convicted of strangling her 14-year-old daughter with a head scarf has prompted growing outrage from victims’ advocates groups. A suspended sentence was given to Aset Magomadova, 40, by Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Sal LoVecchio on Thursday, stunning a national victims’ group based in Toronto, the Vancouver Sun reports. “I really strongly disagree,” said Joe Wamback, founder and chairman of the Canadian Crime Victims Foundation. “It sends a message to the rest of the community and …Read more […..]
Police catch carjacker after wild ride down Kennedy
SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE A man has been charged with allegedly carjacking a BMW on the Far Northwest Side on Wednesday morning, driving erratically at high speeds down the Kennedy Expressway, then crashing into a parked car just west of the River North area. The entire episode, from carjacking to capture, took less than 20 minutes. Norvell Moore Jr., 28, was charged with one count of aggravated vehicular hijacking with a firearm and one count of aggravated fleeing of police. Norvell Moore Jr., 28, of 8000 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue, was charged with one count of aggravated vehicular hijacking with …Read more […..]
After 43 years, cop killer set to walk free
Outraged police and slain officers’ families fight parole decision Northlake Police Deputy Chief Norman Nissen, Jr. stands in front of the memorial to slain officers Anthony Perri and Det. Sgt. John Nagle. Nissen is coordinating efforts to prevent the parole of Henry Gargano who was convicted of killing the two Northlake police officers during a 1967 bank robbery. (Tribune photo by Chuck Berman / July 14, 2010) Northlake is my former employer and this is personal to me. This scumbag is even lucky he is alive! And, the bleeding hearts are about to let him go? Unreal!! When Robert Nagle learned …Read more […..]
Getting Information About California Arrest Records Online
Everyone must be grateful that the freedom of information act has been implemented for the safe of the general public around the world. California Arrest Records are meticulously compiled to supply the individuals with reliable details which they can use for whatever purposes. Searching on public documents is a very important move to do in the effort of resolving certain issues. Such reports could simply be just a source of information in conducting a background check on somebody. Any records committed by the criminals must be discovered in the effort of performing a background check. Those who are looking for potential company …Read more […..]