More Bad Headlines

CPD just can't get out from under them...even when it happened nine months ago:

• A Chicago Police detective is charged with theft of services and aggravated assault over a dispute with a cabbie, officials said today.

  [...] — the son of a former police commander — is accused of getting into a dispute over a fare and pulling his gun, court records show.

  [...] Chicago Dispatcher, a news site for the city’s taxi industry, reported that cab driver Karl Clermont was involved in an incident with a drunken passenger at 1:35 a.m. on April 23.

Is it just us, or have most of the recent scandals in the Department involved "merit," clout, or the anointed being caught up in misdeeds?

Then there's this brainiac getting convicted - at least they label her as "former" CPD:

• A Cook County judge today convicted a 38-year-old Chicago woman of attempting to deposit a $1 million bogus check.

  And not only was the defendant in Wednesday's bench trial a former Chicago police officer, but prosecutors say she attempted to deposit the bad check in her account at the Chicago Patrolmen's Federal Credit Union.

  Circuit Court Judge William Lacy found former officer [...] guilty of forgery, attempted theft and official misconduct.

Who knows which scandal is going to rear its ugly head again?