Chicago Police officers are continuing to flout the law they’re charged with enforcing — and creating a potential safety hazard — by using police placards to park illegally around City Hall and near Soldier Field and Wrigley Field, inspector general Joe Ferguson charged Tuesday.
Ferguson said preferential parking schemes still run rampant two years after he pressured the Chicago Police Department to issue a directive demanding that police-issued placards be used only at designated locations and only by authorized officers for official police business.
On “multiple occasions between April, 2016 and October, 2018,” Ferguson said his investigators “observed vehicles displaying First District parking placards” illegally parked “beneath fire escapes and beside emergency exit doors” in an alleyway across the street from City Hall.