The week before Bogdalek resigned, the City Council signed off on a $2.2 million settlement for the family of Emmanuel Lopez, who was fatally shot by Chicago police officers after fleeing a traffic incident and allegedly pinning one of the officers under his car.

Van Dyke prepared a report on the incident. But in a 2008 deposition, he admitted that he had not asked a single officer what had happened as he prepared the report. Instead, he was handed a typed-out narrative by a detective back at the station, which he then copied into his own report, according to his testimony.

“I didn’t recover any evidence. I didn’t interview any witnesses,” Van Dyke testified. “Really, just stood there for a little bit. That’s about it.”

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Craig Futterman, a University of Chicago law school professor who was instrumental in the release of the Laquan McDonald shooting video, said the Lopez case is yet another example of police culture in Chicago. “The code of silence in the Chicago Police Department isn’t about an individual case or an operation,” he said. “It’s something that has and continues to permeate the entire department. Each of those cases are examples of the code of silence in action.”

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