Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th) and Chris Taliaferro (29th) aren’t keeping their constituents safe, their challengers say. The data tell a more complex story.
“We have fired officers in the past with less transgressions in their associations,” Ald. Chris Taliaferro (29th) said of an officer with ties to the group Proud Boys.
The department’s handling of the probe “points out a much bigger problem about how internal affairs and how, in general, the police department is accountable to the public,” the alderperson said.