Two months ago, one of the most sordid chapters in the history of the Chicago Police Department came to an end with City Council approval of a $90 million “global settlement” for 180 shakedown victims of corrupt former Sgt. Ronald Watts.

City Corporation Counsel Mary Richardson-Lowry vowed then to “take what we’ve learned” from the Watts settlement and use it to resolve other massive liability cases.

But that’s not as simple as it seems in the case of retired Chicago police Det. Reynaldo Guevara, whose actions have led to yet another proposed one-off settlement, this time for $17 million.

The latest in a string of Guevara-related settlements is on Monday’s agenda for the City Council’s Finance Committee. It would go to Jose Maysonet, who spent 27 years in prison after allegedly being be

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