Posted on 12/31/2018 11:59:44 PM PST by L.A.Justice
When Sandra Spagnoli was first hired as Beverly Hills’ police chief in 2016, the choice was met with effusive praise. The city’s first female top cop earned an adoring piece in Vogue. Her experience as the former chief of the San Leandro and Benicia police departments made her trusted figure in law enforcement.
Fast-forward to the present day and it’s not uncommon to hear town hall critics shouting comparisons to Adolf Hitler.
In the past two years, at least 20 current or former police officials have filed complaints or lawsuits against Spagnoli. That number could top 30 by the end of the year. The allegations range from racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-LGBT remarks to sex with subordinates who purportedly received promotions after a tryst.
On Friday, Beverly Hills settled the first of these lawsuits for $2.3 million. The plaintiff, Capt. Mark Rosen, was once under consideration for the chief’s job himself. He now claims Spagnoli denied him a promotion because he’s Jewish.
The city says it only settled upon the advice of its insurance company but attorney Brad Gage, who represents some of the people who have complained about Spagnoli, says its proof that the case against her is strong.
Just one day before the settlement, Spagnoli spoke to the Los Angeles Times. She vehemently denied sleeping with underlings. She was less vehement when it came to her alleged bigoted remarks. (Spagnoli allegedly referred to yarmulkes as “funny little hats,” expressed disgust at an employee’s sexual orientation, and asked if she had to “dress Mexican” for a dinner at a Latino employee’s home.) Instead, she insisted she is not a racist.
To hear Spagnoli tell it, this is nothing but a smear campaign motivated by sour grapes over some of the hard-hitting reforms she has enacted, including new discipline protocol.
“When you implement change, you create some waves within an organization, which is what has happened here,” she told the Times.
Spagnoli has key supporters and some data to back her up. City Council members and the city’s mayor have spoken out in her defense and a recent internal assessment found the majority of city employees were satisfied with her leadership.
But the 20+ people who aren’t satisfied represent almost 10% of the department’s brass. And with rancorous town halls replete with Hitler comparisons, the situation has gotten ugly.
In the coming weeks, it could get even worse.
A female police chief pressuring one of her officers for sex? Really?
This police chief is in all kinds of hot water!
I’d be surprised if she makes it through the next year in that position. Sounds as though there is little confidence in her judgement.
She's ready to run for office. "2020 - AOC/Spagnoli"
damn right.
Spagnoli Looks Forward, Says Race, Sex Scandals Are In The Past
San Leandro’s first female police chief addresses criticisms of the department that she took over in January while insisting that she is “raising the bar.”
By Tom Abate, Patch Staff | Nov 4, 2011
https://patch.com/california/sanleandro/spagnoli-looks-forward-says-sex-race-scandals-are-in-the-past
San Leandro Police Chief Sandra Spagnoli Answers Questions at Homeowners Meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH0rGtp3KKM
Judges?
https://ebcitizencom.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/Spagnoli-Sandra.jpg
Charges of racism which are denied and accusations of work sexual harassment by people that won’t give their name makes it sound like she’s a conservative.
Guilty. Maybe for a pension, promotion, and hammered on malt liquor...maybe.
So was she an affirmative action quota hire?
Seems she sailed right to the top over some better qualified men. The men aren’t taking it well, but they need to get used to it. I saw the same thing at a government agency where I once worked. Black females, who even had problems with English, promoted over better qualified men. This is not going to change.
I see this in my job as well, and it just lowers the bar for everyone. When money and titles are thrown at tokens, then everyone gets to downshift to low - nobody can complain when the incompetent “boss” works the bare minimum.
Make the most of it, and enjoy the end of the 60 hour workweek; I’ve dropped a full unpaid “day” of work from my workweek.
Spagnoli allegedly referred to yarmulkes as “funny little hats,” expressed disgust at an employee’s sexual orientation, and asked if she had to “dress Mexican” for a dinner at a Latino employee’s home.)
As for sex with underlings, she is not a bad looking woman. Can’t imagine she’d have trouble getting some outside the Dept.
I’ve warned co-workers with good relationships with “preferred minorities” that they should use caution because jokes that are acceptable now will re-surface if that “preferred minority” ever has to be fired (regardless of who is firing them) - or even legitimately laid off/downsized.
SJW code for "she's a heterosexual breeder".
I Goolaged her - she really can be easy on the eyes in some pictures.
She sounds distressingly normal. ;-)
She probably stated that she knows the difference between a boy and a girl.
Spagnoli allegedly referred to yarmulkes as “funny little hats,” expressed disgust at an employee’s sexual orientation, and asked if she had to “dress Mexican” for a dinner at a Latino employee’s home.)
She sounds distressingly normal. ;-)
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That’s what I was thinking. She talks like I do. I think I am in love.
Put Axel Foley on the case.....
Not Guilty is she chatters like a chipmunk.
Sunblock ladies, sunblock. No more turkey jerky neck ; )
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