CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Police are investigating a sergeant who was praised for helping three young girls found living in squalid conditions in an abandoned building last year because he helped raise money for the children.
Police spokesman Frank Giancamilli says the department doesn’t suspect Sgt. Charles Artz did anything “nefarious” when he helped set up an online fundraising page for the girls. But Giancamilli says there’s a rule prohibiting officers from seeking contributions in their official capacity as police.
The investigation has angered Artz’s fellow officers and others who say it sends the wrong message to officers who are thinking about helping residents. The girls’ grandmother says if she hadn’t received the money to pay her rent she would have been evicted and the girls would have been placed in foster care.
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