Twice in the past three months, probes by the city's watchdog have uncovered ties between Chicago Police officers and far-right extremist groups, raising concerns about Mayor Lori Lightfoot and CPD's efforts to weed out extremists from the department.
And twice in the past three months, Mayor Lori Lightfoot has declined to answer questions from WTTW News about whether the continued presence of an officer who admitted belonging to the Oath Keepers and another officer with ties to the Proud Boys will complicate efforts to reform the beleaguered Chicago Police Department and rebuild Chicagoans’ trust in the department.
During that probe, the Chicago Police Department officer “admitted to being a former member of the Oath Keepers, having joined in 2010 or 2011 and having been a member for three to four years,” according to the inspector general’s report. “The rigor of the police disciplinary system and the quality of its outcomes are urgent, present-day matters — never more so than in cases which reach the core values of our police department,” Witzburg said.
Department officials did not answer WTTW questions about how an allegation that the officer admitted to during an investigation could be found “not sustained.”
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