Guess Who Has a Gun?

An old friend of ours does some pretty good reporting on something that most reporters won't even peek at:

• The Nation of Islam styles him its “Supreme Captain” — a potential successor to his controversial father, Minister Louis Farrakhan.
  
  But when he’s working for the Harvey Police Department, Mustapha Farrakhan is just a regular part-time cop.
  
  If, that is, he’s actually working for the Harvey Police Department.
  
  Farrakhan, 52, certainly has a police badge from the crime-plagued south suburb.
  
  He drives an unmarked Harvey Police squad car, complete with flashing police lights, and parks it outside his home at night.
  
  And he’s been registered with the state as a gun-carrying Harvey cop since 2006.
  
  But he hasn’t worked a single shift in more than four years, according to state records. If he’s ever made an arrest, Harvey’s police chief is unwilling to discuss it.

Janssen talked to everyone he could and the Illinois Police Standards and Training Board has opened an investigation. He also covers the bases with Harvey's shady political structure.  We imagine a bit of digging by appropriate authorities would expose even more - like selling badges to part timers so they can carry guns.

It's nice to see actual investigative reporting pop up every so often. There's plenty more where that came from.