A Year??

Actually, over fourteen months:

• A police oversight agency has cleared a Chicago police officer who exchanged gunfire with car burglars who opened fire on him during a confrontation outside his West Lawn home last year, according to newly released records. Two juveniles were later arrested, but neither was charged with shooting at the off-duty cop.

  The Civilian Office of Police Accountability, COPA, concluded the off-duty officer acted within CPD policy when he fired a single shot after one of four people breaking into vehicles outside his home shot him in the ear during the April 28, 2025, encounter in the 3700 block of West 67th Place. The agency found the officer faced an “imminent threat of death or great bodily harm” and that his response was “objectively reasonable.”

They knew that within the first hour of responding to the scene - he was bleeding from a gunshot wound and all the evidence pointed to his being shot and returning fire.

And it still took these incompetent morons a year?

Having this hanging over your head, your career, your future undoubtedly contributes massively to stress. 

And it probably contributes massively to realizing disengagement is likely the best course of action from that point forward.