Chicago cops are famend for committing brutal atrocities in opposition to poor and disenfranchised individuals, together with beatings and torture. The Chicago Police Division wish to faux its sadistic status is all previously, however a latest report from The Guardian suggests in any other case. It says the police are being investigated for sexually assaulting susceptible younger asylum seekers:
The Chicago police division is beneath investigation for allegations of sexual misconduct with lately 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 … might also have engaged in related misconduct”, Andrea Kersten, chief administrator of civilian workplace of police accountability (Copa), the town company that investigates police misconduct, stated at a summer season press convention.
Nevertheless, in keeping with The Chicago Tribune, the Civilian Workplace of Police Accountability (COPA) says it might probably’t discover any witnesses to the alleged assaults. Kiisha Smith, the chair of the Ogden District Council, suggests is not wanting 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 not less than 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 in the course of 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 instructed the 30 or so assembly attendees. “They (COPA) acknowledged that they nonetheless have not discovered the complaining asylum-seekers, so that they nonetheless do not have names, they are saying they do not know the place they’re. I provided to advise them of the place the places have 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 Group Council stated, “Most of those migrants really feel that in the event that they communicate out, they are going to get kicked out of the system,” and that grassroots organizations must be allowed to take part within the investigation, for the reason that victims could be extra prepared to speak to them.