Chicago Promoted Two Police Officers After Investigators Found They Engaged in Sexual Misconduct

Check out this ProPublica article about the Chicago Police Department, whose policies allow officers like Sgt. Ernesto Guzman-Sanchez, accused of distributing a nude photo of a woman he knew, and Sgt. Christopher Lockhart, whom oversight investigators found responsible for acts of domestic violence and sexual assault, to be promoted despite their disciplinary records.  These men were not only promoted, they were reassigned to supervising other officers.

This police agency, despite being nearly seven years into a state consent decree that is intended in part to address this department’s willfully blind promotions system, does not consider disciplinary records in promotions and allows officers like Guzman-Sanchez and Lockhart to move up the food chain.  Imagine reporting a sex crime to one of these men.

Maybe instead of paying $430,000 to consultants to address the pernicious problems at CPD, how about taking a common sense approach and firing these fuckers instead of promoting them?  Nobody has a better predator protection system than a police union–except maybe the Catholic Church.

Chicago Promoted Two Police Officers After Investigators Found They Engaged in Sexual Misconduct