Jon Burge

While the majority of the men involved in this settlement have already received formal certificates of innocence, Guevara has not faced criminal charges related to his police work.

Now, if the city council signs off on this settlement, lawsuits linked to Guevara, uh, total more than the amount of money the city's already had to spend on cases associated with former CPD Commander John Burge.

The city says that it would pay settlements over two years starting in 2027.

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Uh, he has become, you know, very well known as one of the, uh, you know, worst bad actors of the Chicago Police Department.

Uh, you know, his misconduct cases have now cost taxpayers more than Commander John Burge, who I think is, you know, the name that really stands out in-

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So this is the part that gets glossed over.

Uh, and I'll tell you this, um- In terms of, like, in Chicago, I've defended a lot of cases for the City of Chicago and Chicago police officers, and I don't know how much you've heard about this, but, but in the 1980s, uh, there was a commander named John Burge who, um, you know, has been accused of mistre- mi- people under Burge's command mistreating suspects, physically beating them and stuff, leading to confessions.

Uh, and so any, any confession obtained under the command of John Burge or his kind of people under him, uh, has been reviewed by the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, and a lot of those people have had their convictions vacated.

Uh, each case stands on its own facts.

I'm not gonna opine on, on any of that.

Yeah.

Well, I mean, one, one, I worked a case with my buddy in Chicago, a huge civil rights case on John Burge.

So you can look that up.

I mean, there's books written about John Burge and how he and his officers tortured black men in the 70s and 80s.

But more recently, I'm in Toledo, Ohio, working out of the Cleveland division.

And After all those years of working criminal cases, I get transferred to work counterterrorism.

These cases date back to the 80s and 90s.

If today's city council committee signs off on the settlement, the total amount will be more than the city spent to settle cases associated with former CPD commander John Burge.

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There were some settlements that took place and unfortunately we lost and the settlements by the juries were like 50 or 60 million dollars.

If the council signs off on the settlement, lawsuits linked to Guevara will total more than the amount of money the city spent to settle cases associated with former CPD commander John Burge.

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This is it's a joke.

And they're making this guy look like the new John Burge.

You know, because they need a boogeyman.

They need a bad guy to say, oh, look, this Guerrero is such a bad cop and a detective and all police are like that.