John Haleas, a Chicago Police officer, has been charged with multiple counts of perjury, obstructing justice and official misconduct.

Haleas had been recognized a number of times for being the top DUI cop in the state - he made the most DUI arrests a few years running.

But it turns out that Haleas was just another in a long string of corrupt cops. Haleas, the charges state, would arrest a person for DUI and then simply lie and fabricate evidence at their trial. Over 150 DUI cases that Haleas was involved with have been dismissed completely. And many of the cases where the defendant was found guilty are now being looked at as well.

We may never know exactly how many innocent people were put in jail by this lying, corrupt cop. But the city of Chicago will most certainly be sued for millions of dollars by the innocent people that this bad cop put in jail.

The FDA and other governmental agencies really put on a big show last year when the contaminated pet food outbreak occurred. There were lots of promises of tougher enforcement of regulations on the pet food industry, as well as stronger government oversight.

Well, one year later nothing much has changed. Sure, there was legislation passed that toughened the rules for pet food factories, and stronger regulations of imported pet foods. But the laws that were passed made reporting of any violations, as well as recalls, VOLUNTARY. So if the pet food company does not want to disclose a contamination they simply won’t disclose it, and won’t pull the contaminated food off of store shelves. The FDA has no power under these new “tougher” laws to recall the food.

Why bother passing the legislation if it truly has “no teeth”?

The legislation needs to make reporting contamination mandatory, and should include surprise inspections by the FDA in all the pet food factories. Just look at Pebbles in the photo above. Pebbles died, slowly, of kidney failure due to the contaminated food she ate last year. That poor dog is proof enough that we need a tougher law to regulate this industry.

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While there are plenty of very hard-working and very honorable police offers out there, the few bad ones really seem to create a big mess.

In this case a Fire Department Captain stops the fire truck on a highway to rescue a driver injured in a crash.

While he is in the middle of helping the injured driver a cop pulls up and tells him to move the fire truck.  The cop refuses to let this Fireman tend to the victim and proceeds to arrest him in the middle of him giving medical treatment to the injured driver.

The Fireman not only has all the charges against him dropped, but the cop gets fired.  Then the cop gets sued, and loses.  Badly.

The cop is ordered to pay the Fireman $18,000 in damages.

The best part of the story is that this cop had a history of being abusive, and was still on the police force.  Now the city (Taxpayers) will have to foot the bill for this man who had no business being a cop in the first place.

The Official Web site for Illinois Secretary of State: If you need to check on your driver’s license status or any other vehicle related issue this is the place to start.