Former Chicago police detective and her lawyer told a Cook County jury Tuesday that she was “made an example of” and given an undesirable assignment after she contradicted officers’ story of a gun arrest.
Beth Svec has sued the department for violating protections awarded by the Illinois Whistleblower Act.According to her complaint, Svec was a detective in Area 2, assigned by her superiors to a pilot program investigating cases of unlawful gun possessions in 2015. On May 30, 2016, she was investigating a case in which two officers were pursuing felony charges against two men for unlawful possession of a firearm and for assaulting an officer.
In the weeks after the arrest and investigation, Svec was transferred to the Englewood neighborhood. Later that year, she found herself reassigned to the midnight shift, which she said she hadn’t worked since her first few years as a police officer. “Beth chose in her mind to take the path that was more difficult but correct, even though it was in some sense the road less traveled,” he said.Needham also emphasized the impact the incident had on Svec’s emotional well-being, saying that three mental health professionals diagnosed her with depression and deemed her unable to continue working for CPD. Those experts are expected to take the stand later this week.
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