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A Chicago police officer who allegedly asked a 17-year-old girl for sex in return for getting her mother’s impounded car released by the city has been fired.

The Chicago Tribune reports that the city’s police board agreed with Superintendent Eddie Johnson’s recommendation to fire Officer Darius Alexander in a 9-0 vote after hearing conversations secretly recorded by the teen that confirmed Alexander was soliciting her and a friend for sex.

In firing Alexander, the board criticized the police department for taking more than six years to bring disciplinary charges against Alexander.

According to the Tribune, Alexander and his partner pulled over a car, containing the teen girl and three others, in May 2012. Two males inside the car were charged with drug offenses, which were later dismissed. The car was impounded and the girl and 18-year-old female were taken to the police station.

The teen says Alexander approached her at the station and offered to help get the car released from the pound. He than allegedly put his phone number in her cellphone. The two exchanged 47 texts as well as phone calls that night, the Police Board said, and Alexander “came on to Ms. Doe in a sexual fashion.”

Alexander claimed he met with the teen the next day, his day off, in a bid to learn the identity of the dealers who had sold the drugs to the two males. He alleged he had “played” the teen by falsely promising to help get the car out of the pound.

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These are the Chicago police who want the FBI to investigate Jussie Smollett.

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Come on, he is a baby. Damn!

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In recent days, the page included several posts critical of NFL players in their protest of police brutality against people of color.

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A high-ranking Chicago Police officer and a lieutenant working under that deputy chief were accused Monday of providing a “preferential treatment scheme to reserve and provide free-parking at the United Center” for off-duty cops, their family and friends.

Last year, Inspector General Joe Ferguson unmasked a similar preferential parking scheme at Bulls and Blackhawks games executed by eight supervisors and traffic control aides working at the city’s 911 emergency center.

The new scheme accuses a deputy chief and a lieutenant, neither of whom were identified by name, of engaging in and supervising a similar system of playing parking favorites.

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A suspension for punching a handcuffed arrestee, all caught on camera? Negotiable.

Discipline for making racially insensitive comments during a traffic stop? Tossed out and expunged from the record.

Punishments for making false statements, an offense for which the department says it has zero tolerance? Those, too, were wiped away as if they never happened.

The result: the weakening of a police accountability system that rarely finds fault with officers’ actions in the first place.

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Brandon Whitehead was 16 years old when an off-duty Chicago officer aimed a gun at him and his father during a road-rage incident, forced them from their car and ordered them to their knees.

That was 11 years ago, and although police officials agreed the officer should be suspended, he wasn’t.

Walter Whitehead, Brandon’s father, was not surprised: “We know how the system works.”

Too often, it works slowly. Or not at all.

The Tribune and ProPublica collaborated to expose flaws in a Chicago police accountability system that’s failing to do all it can to track cases and discipline officers like the one who pulled a gun on the Whiteheads.

Read the special report here.

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