Given, Not Earned

Keep those hiring standards low!

• A Chicago police officer is facing dismissal after he tested positive for methamphetamine and marijuana just months after he was arrested for allegedly driving drunk and groping a woman at a bar on the Near North Side.

  Officer Aramis Williams, 29, failed the drug test at police headquarters in Bronzeville on Jan. 17, 2024, according to disciplinary charges filed last month by Supt. Larry Snelling.

  Williams is at least the fourth cop to face dismissal charges for failing a drug test since last October, according to records maintained by the Chicago Police Board. Earlier this year, another officer who tested positive for weed was allowed to keep his job after the board found he had unwittingly ingested the drug.

  Williams failed the drug test four months after he was stripped of his policing powers following his arrest.

This mope passed a background check? After getting hired, he got caught:

• driving drunk
• molesting a woman
• before failing a drug test for weed and meth 

There weren't any Red Flags in his life history or interview process? Or any of the other three hirees pissing hot within a year?

Many people remember the Abbate debacle - that guy had at least one DUI prior to being hired (maybe more?) but had a heavy phone call to "overlook" an offense that previously resulted in tens of dozens of other people NOT ever getting hired....and look what that resulted in.

Perhaps Personnel needs a good housecleaning along with a review of what should disqualify someone from public service?