Ex-Capt. John Whitney claims the police department targeted him for exposing a tradition of bending back the star points on the badges of officers who killed someone in the line of duty.
Vallejo has reached a $900,000 settlement agreement with a former police captain who claims he was fired for exposing the Vallejo Police Department’s “badge-bending” scandal.
“I took an oath to uphold the public trust and that’s what I did when I blew the whistle on badge bending,” Whitney said in a statement. “I shouldn’t have lost my career for trying to hold officers accountable. Vallejo took so much from me, but now I have finally been vindicated.”“John Whitney tried to reform a department with much higher rates of police shootings than almost any other agency in California,” she said. “Badge bending should have been rooted out immediately.
Whitney’s lawsuit, which he filed in 2020, targeted the city, the police department, then-city manager Greg Nyhoff, and former Vallejo Police Chiefs Andrew Bidou and Joseph Allio.
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