End the Christmas Parties?

CPD Christmas parties have long been a point of contention. Commanders push overpriced tickets for overpriced venues that serve substandard food and there isn't any real accounting of whose pocket the money ends up in.

And now this:

• A Chicago police officer has alleged that another officer sexually assaulted her Friday morning after they attended a Christmas party with other cops assigned to their Southwest Side police district.

  Officers responded Friday afternoon to Trinity Hospital, where a nurse told them that a 26-year-old female officer had reported being assaulted by her 37-year-old male co-worker, according to a police report. Both officers are assigned to the Chicago Lawn district and had attended the party together.

  A police spokesperson said a “known offender” was responsible, but no one had been arrested.

Almost certainly, it's going to go the route of "he said, she said" and everyone involved was drunk. Someone will get transferred, someone will get offered a "spot" to drop the accusations, it's happened dozens of times before.

Nothing will ever change, though it should. How long ago was that exempt member's secretary driving drunk from a Christmas party and killed that lady visiting town? We don't recall that outcome....but the parties continued the very next year.