‘Secret hearings’ have allowed CPD to keep suspects in custody for more than 48-hour limit – Chicago Sun-Times

But for more than a decade, the Chicago Police Department has had a policy that provides a workaround to the 48-hour deadline: ad hoc, largely off-the-books “after-hours” court hearings held at courthouses adjacent to police stations — and often inside the stations themselves — that were until recently coordinated by the city Law Department
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Debtsor
6 years ago

A $196,000 a year pension. Ouch.

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