How to create a toxic police department: 101
I'm going to preface this entire post with this: This is strictly my opinion, my observations, my experience, and my story. You may not like it, and while I'd love nothing than to put this supervisor on blast by name, if you know me, you know who this person is because I've been vocal about this since it happened. The other reason is I've always felt that when the upper echelon of supervisors in a department DO NOT lead their people correctly, the toxicity that lack creates disseminates itself into the front line officers. It is in that toxicity that trauma (job caused or otherwise) festers and comes out as the dark side of policing: addiction, alcohol/drug abuse, violence at home and work, risky behaviors, and far, far too often...suicide. One more point: I'm not writing this for accolades but to give a back story. My police pedigree started in the 011th district, as for those of you who read this outside of the Chicago Police Department, think of the dist