Chicago's biggest police union is spending money to win power on new oversight councils
https://www.wbez.org/stories/chicago-police-union-spending-in-new-council-elections/7830fe18-a6f0-4e1b-bf1d-240b18fbd500
The police union paid $25,000 to two election attorneys to kick candidates off the ballot in police district races.
The union representing Chicago’s rank and file cops is throwing money into races for seats on newly formed police district councils in an attempt to extend the union’s power into a domain created specifically to oversee the officers who make up the union’s membership.
The councils were created in 2021 after years of lobbying by activists seeking to give Chicago residents greater control over the Police Department. The first ever candidates will be on the ballot in next month’s municipal election.
The Fraternal Order of Police Chicago Lodge 7 paid $25,000 to two election attorneys, according to filings with the Illinois State Board of Elections. The lawyers, Frank Avila and Pericles Abbasi, appeared for the union downtown at a Friday hearing attempting to kick candidates off the ballot in races in at least three police districts.
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