Rispoli v. Police Board

Petitioner, Joseph Rispoli, a Chicago police officer, appeals from the trial court’s order which affirmed the City of Chicago Police Board’s (the Board’s) respondents’ decision to sever petitioner from the Chicago police department. The facts are as follows.

In June of 1982, petitioner, Rispoli, a Chicago police department detective, had been a City of Chicago police officer for 25 years, the latter 12 years of which he was assigned to the department’s central auto theft unit. Since October 1980, Rispoli had also been engaged in a secondary employment, as president and sole shareholder of…