Fresno Police Department Case Study

Discrimination within the Fresno Police Department has been going on for many years and they have seen numerous cases. The Fresno Police Department has had complaints in the past with racial comments. They have been sued numerous times by different employees within the Fresno Police Department and Clovis police Department. Most of the cases were either Hispanic or African-American. I personally know the police chief that Sue the Fresno police due to racial comments. They try to justify the situation and denying all claims of any discrimination within their department. In this particular article "A decorated sergeant has sued the Fresno Police Department and three detectives accusing them of subjecting him to workplace harassment and discrimination due to his Hispanic ethnicity." They accused him of being a dirty cop because of his Hispanic background …show more content…
You can't really change the way someone was raised or their beliefs. When you have two people that don't get along that work in the same department the only thing you can do is coexist with each other and respect one another. I always say that talking to a therapist about the situations that are going on within the Police Department is helpful. If we can try to understand why people discriminate towards each other and then the workplace would be a much simpler place. The only thing that I can advise is that we try to build some type of relationship with one another so we can work together and protect each other on the battlefield. Because when it comes down to it it's the police versus the bad guys at the end of the day. I feel like if we can at least respect each other for our differences, then they will be less discrimination or racism within the police department. I'm not necessarily saying that every police department is going through this, but there have been numerous cases of people suing because of these