More than 100 Chicago police officials kept their jobs after making false statements, despite department’s ‘you lie, you die’ rule

Chicago police officers attend a graduation and promotion ceremony at Navy Pier in November 2018. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

More than 100 current and former Chicago Police Department officials were allowed to stay on the job after making false statements, despite a rule that says dismissal is the “appropriate disciplinary penalty,” City Hall’s inspector general reported Thursday.

When former Mayor Lori Lightfoot was on the Chicago Police Board, she called the department’s Rule 14 the “you lie, you die” rule.