ICE agents arrested a police officer Thursday morning in the Chicago suburb of Hanover Park, accusing him of being an unlawful immigrant from Montenegro.
The Department of Homeland Security says the officer, Radule Bojovic, overstayed a tourist visa that expired in 2015.
The Hanover Park Police Department shared a Facebook post in August announcing Bojovic’s recent graduation from the Suburban Law Enforcement Academy, adding that he had started “an intensive 15 weeks of field training and evaluation as he continues preparing to serve the Hanover Park community.”
It’s been known that the federal E-Verify program is an effectively useless system that “verifies” people that aren’t actually allowed to work. That’s the minimum required by law in most places.
Given the fact that officers get fired for insane shit and then just move elsewhere and do the same job again… I’m 100% willing to believe that’s the extent of what many police departments do, not full background checks.
“So you lost your last job for brutally beating a suspect who turned out to be the wrong guy? Well, you’re going to fit in nicely around here! Welcome aboard!”