SEATTLE - Port of Seattle Police have dropped the hammer on two of their own, stemming from the department's e-mail scandal known as "E-Gate."
One has been fired and another appears to be on his way out. Both were originally given written reprimands for sending sexist and racist emails around the department, while taxpayers were paying their salaries.
Last year, Port of Seattle Police found they had a systemic problem in the department - racist, sexist, and pornographic emails being sent. One of the videos shows a man making fun of a group of Latinos.
The KING 5 Investigators analyzed dozens of email threads and found 43 officers, nearly half the force, were involved in sending or sending inappropriate material, including 12 sergeants. Not one person reported it in a two year period. 10 people, the worst offenders, received letters of reprimand. Back in January, then Deputy Chief Gale Evans said it wouldn't happen again
"We've identified the problem, we've reprimanded those that were involved with it. We've put in a course a corrective action plan to ensure it won't happen again in the future," said Evans.
But, it has happened again.
On February 16, a month after our first report, the police chief discovered an x-rated photograph in the men's locker room. The area was declared a crime scene and sealed off.
Six days later, Officer Randy Chinen, already reprimanded in the case, admitted the photo was his.
That led to a new search of Chinen's work computer. He'd allegedly been surfing numerous inappropriate websites on the job, including gambling sites and sites with ethnically insensitive jokes and x-rated images.
Chinen was put on administrative leave three weeks ago.
Posted by: justanotherparatrooper
Oh god save us from the pc crowd!
Posted by: NewEngland2007
I thought X-rated photos were supposed to be in men's locker rooms?
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