Chicago Police Officer Faces Charges Following False DUI Arrests
ABC 7 news in Chicago broke this story about a Chicago police officer who is facing a lawsuit brought against him by the innocent victims of his false DUI arrests. You have to watch this video that was obtained from ABC 7 news in chicago. The video is from the in car dash cam from the accused officer’s patrol car.
The video clearly shows how officer Florito has been strong arming supposed DUI suspects and falsely arresting them on DUI charges. The apparent suspect in the video performs the field sobriety tests better than anyone I have every seen and his lawyer confirms that he has never seen a defendant perform the field sobriety test this well in his entire career.
Richard Florito is currently on desk duty pending an internal affairs investigation into the allegations against him. Florito has been averaging 300 DUI arrests per year. Even if you figure the guy works 250 days per year that works out to be an average of 1.2 DUI arrests per shift.
This is a good example of police departments looking the other way and not stepping up and saying, hey I think we have an issue here this officer has been making way more DUI arrests than anyone else. How is that possible?
As a tax payer it infuriates me to no end knowing that this type of behavior is being tolerated in police departments across the country and innocent people are being arrested an probably convicted of crimes that they did not commit.