Mayoral candidate collins4chicago is a CPD officer with over 40 misconduct complaints. He said none were even sustained, but records obtained by the Reader show 20% have been. | _KellyGarcia__
Content warning: this article contains descriptions of police violence and sexual assault.
Some of the complaints in his file detail incidents in which Collins used excessive force on people including young children, like when he allegedly shoved a boy’s head into a locker while working as a security guard at an elementary school on the west side in 2008. Other complaints give us a glimpse into accusations that Collins sexually assaulted and harassed women, such as an incident in 2000 when he allegedly invited himself into the home of a complainant and inappropriately touched her.
“Under my administration as mayor, due process will be granted to everyone,” Collins said. “The full investigation would actually occur, not just settling accusations without any investigation whatsoever, just so you don’t take the risk of finding out whether you’re gonna pay more for a lawsuit or not pay for a lawsuit at all. To me, that makes no sense. That has got to stop. It just makes it so that the city’s just an open checkbook for anybody.
By the late 90s, Collins owned property at 1841 W. Walnut in the West Loop, where his tenants and neighbors described being terrorized by him.of verbally threatening him and refusing to let him retrieve his personal property. He told investigators that Collins forcibly removed him from the building, kicked him in the back, and struck him in the chest with an unknown object.
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