Chicago cops are famend for committing brutal atrocities in opposition to poor and disenfranchised individuals, together with beatings and torture. The Chicago Police Division want to fake its sadistic fame is all up to now, however a current report from The Guardian suggests in any other case. It says the police are being investigated for sexually assaulting weak younger asylum seekers:
The Chicago police division is below investigation for allegations of sexual misconduct with not too long ago arrived asylum seekers who’re dwelling in a number of police precincts throughout the town.
One case options an officer who allegedly impregnated an 18-year-old.
The investigation follows a report {that a} police officer had “sexual contact with an unidentified underage feminine migrant, and indicated [that] a number of different unidentified officers … can also have engaged in comparable misconduct”, Andrea Kersten, chief administrator of civilian workplace of police accountability (Copa), the town company that investigates police misconduct, stated at a summer time press convention.
Nevertheless, in response to The Chicago Tribune, the Civilian Workplace of Police Accountability (COPA) says it may well’t discover any witnesses to the alleged assaults. Kiisha Smith, the chair of the Ogden District Council, suggests is not trying onerous sufficient:
After greater than two months, the Civilian Workplace of Police Accountability has not positioned any witnesses in its investigation of allegations of sexual misconduct involving a minimum of one Chicago police officer and a migrant housed on the Ogden District station on the West Aspect.
Kiisha Smith, the chair of the Ogden District Council, stated through the police council’s month-to-month assembly on Tuesday {that a} COPA consultant gave her the replace final Friday.
“Actually, nothing’s modified,” Smith advised the 30 or so assembly attendees. “They (COPA) said that they nonetheless have not discovered the complaining asylum-seekers, in order that they nonetheless haven’t got names, they are saying they do not know the place they’re. I supplied to advise them of the place the areas had been … like in the event that they did not know we would supply the knowledge for them to make use of within the investigation. They declare they knew, however no person was talking up.”
In a WGN Information section, Baltazar Enriquezl of the Little Village Neighborhood Council stated, “Most of those migrants really feel that in the event that they converse out, they’ll get kicked out of the system,” and that grassroots organizations must be allowed to take part within the investigation, because the victims could be extra prepared to speak to them.