Cook County State’s Attorney’s Rollback of Do-Not-Call and Disclosure Lists is Alarming and Dangerous 

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke has decided to scrap her office’s do-not-call and disclosure lists, which call out problematic and dishonest cops, and we have serious concerns. Do-not-call and disclosure lists include the names of discredited officers who can’t be trusted to testify truthfully. This decision increases the likelihood of constitutional violations and wrongful convictions—especially in Chicago, where the issue of dishonest police in court (“testilying”) is particularly important given the city’s reputation as the country’s wrongful conviction capital.