The Chicago Public School system suspended 2 security guards in September of 2023 who had both been previously fired Chicago police officers with offenses serious enough to have been placed on the Do-Not-Hire list. After being fired, both went to work as private school security guards in SRO positions. Questions have been raised about the background checking before hiring of
Oh man, I thought it would be your typical excessive force types of issues. Nope.
“One of the SROs had been terminated by the Chicago Police Department in 2019 for sexual misconduct with a minor.”
“One of the officers, Darius Alexander, 50… was caught witnessing a drug transaction, arrested 2 males and took 2 females from the same incident and coerced one of the underage girls into contact…”
Sounds like the perfect authority figure to place in a school, right? Maybe we wouldn’t need a SRO if the schools weren’t actively inviting predators in.
Oh man, I thought it would be your typical excessive force types of issues. Nope.
“One of the SROs had been terminated by the Chicago Police Department in 2019 for sexual misconduct with a minor.” “One of the officers, Darius Alexander, 50… was caught witnessing a drug transaction, arrested 2 males and took 2 females from the same incident and coerced one of the underage girls into contact…”
Sounds like the perfect authority figure to place in a school, right? Maybe we wouldn’t need a SRO if the schools weren’t actively inviting predators in.