Chicago floats bond issue to pay off police misconduct lawsuits

Your city probably sucks if it has to float a bond issue to pay off police brutality lawsuits but under the competent leadership of Mayor Rahm Emanuel Chicago is doing just that. The city will market $900 million in bonds in part to reduce its short term borrowing costs but $100 million will go to settle lawsuits arising from police misconduct. To be fair to Emanuel much of the misconduct was perpetrated before his time by police Commander Jon Burge and his "Midnight Crew" who tortured suspects into confessing crimes they did not commit.
If you thought "stop and frisk" as practiced in New York was bad you're a wuss. In Chicago it's "stop and strip search" and this is something Emanuel cannot blame on his predecessors or George Bush. From the Chicago Sun Times:

All three claim they were searched by police May 23, 2013, after officers in an unmarked squad car drove at them the wrong way in the 9000 block of South Laflin Street, the suit says.
Police ordered them out of their vehicle and handcuffed Ford and Douglas, who had been driving, the suit claims. Officers opened both men’s waistbands and searched down their pants.
The suit alleges police then walked Douglas to a nearby house, handcuffed his wrist to bars on the home’s window, and pulled his pants to the ground while bending him over and searching his buttocks in the open air.
The plaintiffs claim police stopped when they saw neighbors looking, and then took all of them to an alley behind a church in the 9100 block of South Bishop Street, where they ordered Halley to remove her pants.
Halley claims she “pleaded” with a female officer not to, but that the officers made her remove her tampon and submit to a body cavity search in the alley.
A female officer searched her, while a group of male officers watched and “made jokes and comments about Ms. Halley’s body,” the suit claims.
The suit claims police found nothing illegal, but that the female officer reached toward her own sock and pulled out a small bag of heroin that she said she found in Halley’s waistband.
Halley and Douglas were both charged with delivery and a possession of a controlled substance, according to the suit.

Thank God for cheap cameras but not to worry. Chicago can always float another bond issue.