COPA Fires Whistleblowers
This certainly isn't going to turn around and bite taxpayers in the ass:
Two high-ranking employees of the agency charged with investigating Chicago Police misconduct were abruptly fired Friday, just days after one of them complained to the inspector general about bias against police.
Matt Haynam, a $163,068-a-year deputy chief administrator for the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, said he was summoned to a virtual meeting with COPA Chief Andrea Kersten and general counsel Robin Murphy and told he was out, effective immediately. He said no reason was given.
[...] Shortly before being fired, Haynam said he got a text message from COPA’s $117,792-a-year supervising investigator Garrett Schaaf, who had also been summarily dismissed. Schaaf declined comment.
Haynam, 44, said he has no doubt why he was let go. “I recently made a complaint to the [inspector general] directly and was let go today effective immediately and given no justification. I’m being fired because she [Kersten] is retaliating,” Haynam told the Sun-Times.
For daring to be critical of progressive policy and attempting to point out how anti-police bias de-legitimizes the entire COPA organization, these guys are fired.
You know who comes out ahead in all this?
- Larritorious
Because now his complaint about COPA "investigations" being biased and "outcome based" looks completely legitimate and he can point to the firings as indirect proof. He ought see about getting these two to verify his accusations directly, because you know when they sue COPA for wrongful termination, the depositions are going to be eye-opening.
Labels: department issues
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
60 Comments:
Sadly it will be settled before any deposition
If you are an officer who is currently being held in limbo, or has had a recommendation to be terminated by Copa for a shooting or anything ridiculous this is a massive win for you and all of us. For two insiders to come forward and then get fired For speaking out is going to have massive ramifications in this city and in COPA and in this department. This may not seem huge, but give it time like SCC said, when deposition start rolling, this is going to be damning. This gives absolute Legitimacy to Snellings’s beefs, the Fop’s beefs and shows that any officer who has been fired or given an exorbitant amount of time for something that should be a simple minor suspension was all personal and focused attacks on the CPD. Not only will this open the door to expose Copper directly targeting CPD, it will be shown in depositions to be willful and wanton conduct from the higher-ups in copa.. What does that mean? It means that they are now open to lawsuits from police officers who have been unjustly fired or given an exorbitant amount of time and had their cases for all to see for public display on their website. all I can say to any officer going through this, keep your head up and hopefully this gives you a breath of fresh air to relax.
Kerstens eating her own…
This should help the lawsuit FOP filed against COPA a week or so ago.
I hope FOP reaches out to these two and deposes them right away. Whatever document, letter, telegram, or email they sent to the Inspector General should be subpoenaed for FOP's lawsuit.
Hopefully these two also file whistleblower lawsuits against Kirsten and COPA for wrongful termination. Whistleblowers have done well in court lately.
Anyone that's been down to copa will tell you that they are completely biased and have a political agenda. Now the rest of the city is starting to see it as well. Opa has zero credibility
Now where did I put that 50# sack of popcorn...
If Copa is watching the cops. Who’s watching Copa? Nobody.
I hope they went through the proper whistleblower steps before coming public. If not, they’re s.o.l.
Liberal political chess. No more, no less. Settlements with the aggrieved will be tendered. And do you know how much the public cares? EXACTLY 0%.
280 grand. Crime does pay....
Just another useless agency head wasting taxpayer money to serve the agenda of a few. Leave us alone and let us do our jobs.
Bla, bla bla. The beat goes on.
Retired in Texas……
Just because one has a law degree-KERSTEN-does not make one intelligent….
Kersten has always been a stupid self serving person….her stupidity will cost the tax payers more money when these two humps sue for wrongful termination……
Back each other up out there !
The Supe can use this to his advantage, but he’s still gloating in the success of the DNC.
Does the Mayor know that firing any whistleblower from any job will cost the City of ChiRaq money in the end? If the current director of COPA feels there was grounds to terminate any employee they needed to have an investigation where evidence and statements are secured prior to making any termination?
So you have CPD superintendent says the investigations are bad coming out of COPA? The FOP have filed lawsuits against COPA for biased investigations? Then you have Current COPA employees making whistleblowers statements and then COPA terminated them? And the Mayor of ChiRaq will be signing a Check to those terminated for violation of whistleblowers laws and hostile work environment?
Kersten Im sure is feeling the heat and will be out the door as well soon enough. OT: Its Labor Day Weekend and my number is 8 killed 28 shot. OT: So we knew the Bullshit of Mexican Independence day was coming up and no doubt RDO's cancelled but 12hr shifts? WTF?
Small miracles do happen every now and then
You get the job through politics. You lose it through politics. I have no sympathy for these people.
Just saw Ch9 news this morning. CPD scared of a couple guys with a pickup truck trying to rip an ATM out of a corner store . Indian owner said CPD saved his store from being robbed and then put his hand up and said "CPD is the best police in the world"
Fuck COPA
Oh Andrea, what a mess you’ve made for yourself.
Can’t wait to see how this plays out.
The last whistleblower got 1.1 million, old Lorenzo Davis, who was nothing but an Ahole who wanted to fire POs. Good riddance
How bout Snelling cancelling all our days off and 12 hour days for the entire department over Mex ind weekend. This shit just never fucking ends. Give us our fucking days off you jag off.
Exactly, and that's the problem!
Several organizations Monday morning quarterbacking the police, yet they answer to no one.
COPA must not have had to take the E-Learning about retaliation
If you receive a favorable ruling on any unjust discipline / punishment records that have been forwarded to ILETSB, don't forget a court order to have those specifically expunged as well.
Follow the rules, document, document, document and be prepared to fight back in the courts, the same way everyone else does. With all the million dollar awards to criminals with little to no evidence to back their claims, these cases should be a slam dunk!
COPA, the city's despotic Kangaroo Court, is the instrument for punishment, revenge, retribution and dishonesty for perceived wrongs by CPD. Kersten, the Democratic Socialists picked dullard to head this extreme left-wing organization has blundered again. Two of her own are shining a bright light in the dark corners of COPA where hatred for the police lives and flourishes. Kersten is the epidemy of what is systemically corrupt and wrong in our broken city. Continued pressure and exposure on retaliation and reprisal against police by COPA needs to be publicly exposed by an aware media, but Chicago media are untrustworthy and possesses a strong left-wing bias. Pursue COPA and expose their wrongdoing in the courts.
This needs to turn into a Federal Civil Rights Whistle Blower investigation. Oh wait, the Federal AG is part of the Illinois Democrat Cabal. Never mind.
First it was the assholes at special employment exposed for a completely biased and punitive suspension policy. White and Hispanic POs hammered while black POs given the kid glove treatment. Heard the city’s law Dept is scrambling to do major damage control on that one. Now we have copa doing the same thing but hammering everyone. So 2 defectors had an epiphany and told the truth and got fired for it? Watch for them to each receive a quick settlement offer with a gag order attached. FLOP and any effected POs need to have these guys lock in their statements before they no longer can. $$$ talks and those 2 whistleblowers have a price that the city will pay for their silence. Tick tock tick tock.
Brace for Nov…
Simple solution, hit the medical. Every time one of his silly emails comes in notifying of RDO cancellation I prepare for a medical stint. I’m never working on my RDO, and haven’t in many years. Don’t owe this city or department a damn thing.
The democRatic way
She needs a real man. I should invite her to Beatrice's.
Don’t forget that COPA’s mouthpiece is the daughter of a former CPD deputy chief who raised his kids in the suburbs but claimed to live by himself in a LSD condo. Yeah, all legit…
It might be time for some FOIA requests that would support these people and / or provide evidence that can be used against COPA.
Take a lawfare page from the DemonRats and hit them from all sides at once.
John in Indy
While the timing is suspiciously coincidental, IL is an 'at-will' state. You can be fired for any reason OR NO REASON AT ALL. The fact that the whistleblowers were not given a reason actually works in COPA's favor.
Hope is all we can do and hopefully she gets chased and sued personally from every officer who was unjustly accused and sandbagged by these nitwits who are investigating police shootings who have no background doing investigations especially when serious injury or death is involved. But never forget, this is Chicago. They will do everything they can to discredit the whistleblowers and try to destroy Snelling with the comments and calling her out in public on being bias.
Anonymous
How bout Snelling cancelling all our days off and 12 hour days for the entire department over Mex ind weekend. This shit just never fucking ends. Give us our fucking days off you jag off.
8/31/2024 08:31:58 AM
Lot of cock guzzlers for Small Bicep Snelling still exist thinking he is a good Sup after the DNC. Waiting for them to pop up again.
Another Diversion for the Media,,,, COPA is a failure...COPA .s Head will roll .... New Chief ( probably connected to CTU ) will need "Time" to sort out all the malfeasance......
They're enriching our culture
It's never been about professionalism with that crooked bitch, it's a deep seated hatred and a need to justify her existence.
Did copa reinvestigate the off duty merit sergeant that shot an unarmed youth? Rumor is that person is still on the job. Off duty,not being threatened with a baseball bat, 2x4 ,not being attacked. Wow. Double standards
Simple solution, hit the medical........
You sir are an asshole....a selfish prick. You're weak, a twat and an even bigger coward. Gfy
Speaking of firing, word is CPS OIG Wil Fletcher fired himself recently by resigning. Fletcher reportedly was worried about posters on this blog outing him and suggesting the Feds look into the OIG's office.
You can't make this shut up. Fletcher was supposed to give his annual report and also hundreds more CPS employees more CPS PPP loan fraudsters at this past Thursday's Board meeting and neither took place.
Now the quarterly report is now pushed to January 2025 and the PPP loan fraud cases are put in the dumpster.
Feds were also planning to look into how Fletcher's office came upon 77,505 missing or lost laptops and tech devices while going through CPS inventory records , yet CPS themselves can't identify what schools lost what.
Also, the investigation into which employees broke policy for actively campaigning for Lightfoot and BJ during school hours and encouraging students to leave school is also closed.
Fletcher high-tailed out like ge did when interviewing Chicago Park District' superintendent Michael Kelly at the start of their lifeguard sex scandal. Oddly enough, Fletcher claimed limited resources as to why his office didn't investigate that scandal more diligently and thoroughly.
Guess what CPS office is now losing $500,000 off their budget while COPA is getting more money added to its budget? If you said the CPS OIG's office, you wìn a gift card to Dunkin.
So True! This is the same Chief that had his hand in the restaurant guy, Rich Melmens pocket! Got the same Chief a job teaching at city of Chicag colleges then a stint as Lincolnwood police chief? And if you meet his daughter you will find the same corn cob stuck up her behind just like her old man!
Totally wrong! Yes Illinois is at will State. But any termination of an employee who has brought misconduct to the attention of his supervisor or employer is granted protection! And when this protection is violated with termination the employee has the rights to challenge the termination and seek damages! That’s why these two former COPA employees need to deposed and record their statement? Prior to any gag order being placed on them?
You forgot to mention the off duty Sgt left the scene after the shooting and came back after the police arrived. Most importantly the off duty Merit Sgt was a bodyguard for Nation of Islam Leader Louis go fuck yourself white devil Farrakhan. A compliant Chicago media has never been so quiet.
F copa, f merits and f the department for canceling days off.
You’re referring to Sgt Mohammad. Yes, he’s still employed by the police delay and currently being hidden at HQ.
Let’s no forget Kirsten is a disciple of Sharon Farley of the University of Chicago, former head of IPRA. Farley made by the OBama click. Old Farley suspended people for free speech, wanted a Sgt fired for making negative comments about Sprinklefarts O Bama.
Thank you. Is it possible to have ILETSB stuff expunged????
008 2nd Watch DOG: Your name suits you. You DO own the City and the Department something. And you owe you coworkers something too. You are an employee, they are an employer. Do what your told to do and if you don't like it, quit and find another job. Work harder and become a decision maker, or follow the decisions of those who do. Show up to work and do your job, that's all that's expected of you, but you don't even want to do that. You think the medical is a freebee, but with just a little effort you can be fired for abusing it. Your actions are not anonymous and can have adverse effects. I'm sure your coworkers just love you, or perhaps you see them as in agreement with your nonsense because they tolerate you being a blowhard and a dog, dumping your workload onto them. Wow, just wow.
Hahaha I have shown up and done my job well for almost three decades. I’m now on MY time, I don’t care about this department or city. Coworkers, don’t mean a thing to me , my LE family has long since retired and I have zero in common with these new kids. As far as work load, I’m pretty sure I do the majority of work since most of them take hours upon hours to complete a freaking GOCR or a simple 99A. Don’t need to quit when retirement is months away and once again I don’t owe this department or city anything!
A problem with COPA conducting and providing biased reports is that the Police Board accepted them. And the Superintendent didn't stop or disagree with the findings.
Wasn't there a fatal shooting by an officer where COPA hired an outside consultant who thought the shooting was justified contrary to COPA's wishes and his findings were suppressed from the final report but the Police Board fired him anyway.
The media is quiet because of threats that they might lose their media credentials if they keeping rocking the wrong boat.
Don't forget Fairley left COPA after viewing the video of Sgt Muhammad's shooting of the special needs kid near Morgan Park H.S.
Sgt. Muhammad, with his ties to Louis Farrakhan, should have not only been fired but charged with aggravated battery with a firearm. I would love to know who made the phone call and who received the call. Muhammad lied through his teeth’ was allowed to go home as the investigation began, and ignored orders from supervisors. He was suspended for 180 days.
The investigators from States Attorney and COPA should be charged with a crime and fired.
It’s far from over……
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