{"id":2911,"date":"2025-07-31T23:58:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T23:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=2911"},"modified":"2025-07-31T23:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T23:58:16","slug":"cincinnati-police-chief-faces-lawsuit-alleging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=2911","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Police Chief Faces Lawsuit Alleging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Former Officers Sue Over Discrimination<\/strong><br>Four former Cincinnati police officers are suing Chief Teresa Theetge and the city, alleging \u201cintentional and discriminatory practices\u201d that favored women and minority officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> They claim white men were excluded from key roles and promotions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Promotion and Assignment Bias<\/strong><br>The lawsuit argues promotions and preferred assignments went to minorities and women \u201cto the exclusion of White men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201d The officers say they lost benefits, career opportunities, and suffered emotional harm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alleged Quotas and Broader Concerns<\/strong><br>Plaintiffs accuse the department of using race-based quotas since Chief Theetge took over. Their lawyer, Zack Gottesman, said, \u201cThese cases show systemic discrimination against white individuals\u2026 in promotions, assignments, and workplace treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Seeking Justice and Court Action<\/strong><br>The officers are asking for lost wages, emotional distress damages, and a court order to end the alleged bias. In a past case, a federal judge barred race- or sex-based quotas in hiring and promotions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Officers Sue Over DiscriminationFour former Cincinnati police officers are suing Chief Teresa Theetge and the city, alleging \u201cintentional and discriminatory practices\u201d that favored women and minority officers. They claim white men were excluded from key roles and promotions. Promotion and Assignment BiasThe lawsuit argues promotions and preferred assignments went to minorities and women \u201cto&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2913,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions\/2913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}