“Any individual who is tasked with protecting the public cannot be trusted to do so equitably when they associate with an openly racist, bigoted, and misogynistic organization,” wrote Jeff Tischauser of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
“Any individual who is tasked with protecting the public cannot be trusted to do so equitably when they associate with an openly racist, bigoted, and misogynistic organization,” wrote Jeff Tischauser, a senior research analyst for the law center.
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.
At a time when trust in the department is at an all-time low, such ties send the message that city leaders appear unwilling to weed out extremists from CPD ranks.
Two officers who allegedly lied about the fatal shooting of a 25-year-old man are now facing dismissal more than 12 years after the deadly encounter, which has already cost the city millions of dollars in a lawsuit.