Executive Director Pat Hill has a number
of comments submitted to the Chicago Defender.
Read some of them below.

Then - step over to the Black Watch which
represents 46 weeks of articles written by
Pat Hill for the Chicago Defender as well.
Click here to read the archives.

Popular mayor helped push the U.S. Olympic bid through
April 16, 2007
...ple Against Police Torture" leader Pat Hill told the Defender that although her coalition has been fighting to keep the Olympics out of Chicago, the selection "raises the ante" on what image the city will have for the rest of the world to see in terms of police brutality and corruption. "They've won the bid as the city to represent the United ...

Police Supt. Cline’s resignation is reaffirmation to Black community of serious ills in city law enforcement
April 4, 2007
...lian police review board.  Pat Hill, executive director of the African American Police League, a watchdog group for equality and fair treatment of African American police officers in the city, told the Defender that Cline really had no choice but to resign.  "The first mistake Supt. Cline made is to make the statement that he serves...

Chicago must SAY NO to Daley's Olympics
March 15, 2007
...160;      Pat Hill, Executive Director, AAPL                                       Member, Black People Against Police Torture  ...

Five Black aldermen vote against passing ordinance that will guarantee $500 million of city’s money for Olympics
March 15, 2007
... in July of 2006, coalition leader Pat Hill told the Defender. The report indicated that nearly 200 African American men were allegedly tortured in the 80s into making false confessions in a South Side precinct by former Chicago Police Lt. Jon Burge and some officers under his command. Mayor Richard M. Daley was state attorney at the time of ...

Fred Hampton’s family speak on loss of some 37 years later
March 2, 2006
...emen, kill the pigs.” But Pat Hill, executive director of the African American Police League, 1403 E. 75th St, said Davis’ rants represent a small minority of the approximately 2,600 Black city police officers. “Chairman Hampton was never charged, accused or convicted of harming or trying to kill any police officer,” H...

Low turnout for African American officials, community at city hearing on racial profiling
August 3, 2005
...bout this issue," she said. For Pat Hill, head of the African American Police League, told the Defender the hearing was more "business as usual." She noted, too, it was one of the least attended by the Black community she's seen. "I think this is part because historically, there have never been any results produced, any recommendations, an...

Chicago ministers blast police superintendent in racial profiling of Meeks
July 20, 2005
....” Chicago police officer Pat Hill attended the news conference as a spokeswoman of a handful of African American officers at the event. “The encounter between Rev. Meeks and a white, male sergeant of the Chicago Police Department was the manifestation of the institutionalized beliefs incorporated in the policies and procedures of...

Activists continue fundraising effort for shooting victim's bail, call for removal of shackle
May 4, 2005
... can't comfort him physically." Pat Hill, head of the Afro-American Police League called the Morgan shooting "a 21st Century lynching." "He is a law enforcement officer, but the actions of those individuals wearing those Chicago Police Department uniforms, reverted back to the antebellum period," she said. Morgan's lawyer, Leo Holt, wouldn...