"Police powers" and related anti-gun legal porn
Ordinary citizens who lack "police powers" are constitutionally prohibited from possessing firearms in the State of Illinois, along with cops who streetwalk and cops who strip
Illinois is one of the three most corrupt Sicilian Mafia states in the U.S.A., the other two being Alaska and New York. We're talking about court systems, boroughs, municipalities and city governments being run by mob bosses and hit men, not about lawyers and judges who place the best construction on all things in any case.
Sara Tenenbaum Senior Web Producer, CBS Chicago
Baker is under investigation after CPD was called to DSTRKT Bar and Grill on North Milwaukee Avenue Sunday night. A 29-year-old off-duty female officer told police she had been attacked by multiple people including fellow officer Baker.
What kind of a cop bar is that? Most explicitly a red-light district and a place to eat and drink and get arrested and nothing else worthy of note. Certainly if you're not a cop yourself, you wouldn't be patronizing a f*ed-up bar like that on a regular basis, or expect to be allowed to leave the place after paying your bar tab without also posting a hefty bail sum. The name alone is adequate to scare off any legitimate customers.
While on leave, Baker was prohibited from being involved in investigations but still had his service weapon and police badge. Now that Superintendent Larry Snelling has relieved him of his police powers, Baker no longer has access to his badge or his service weapon. //Being stripped of his powers is also not the same as being fired. While Baker can no longer actively police, he is still employed by the Chicago Police Department.
Being stripped of his famed Illinois police powers of course makes it illegal for him to possess firearms because the Constitution of the State of Illinois in fact makes it illegal for anyone except an authorized police officer to possess or carry firearms (in spite of the U.S. Second Amendment.)
SECTION 22. RIGHT TO ARMS Subject only to the police power, the right of the individual citizen to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. (Source: Illinois Constitution.)