When it comes to police misconduct, the “bad apples” come in bunches, according to a new study of Chicago Police Department data by Northwestern University researchers.
Chicagoans may have learned the name Ronald Watts in recent years, as prosecutors have thrown out more than 200 convictions based on arrests made by the disgraced police sergeant’s unit. And the “Austin 7” made headlines in the mid-1990s, when federal prosecutors charged the septet of West Side cops in a gang conspiracy.
