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The police captain of the Milwaukee police was released at the beginning of this year due to the employment of violations

The police captain of the Milwaukee police was released at the beginning of this year due to the employment of violations

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  • Milwaukee's former police captain, Roberta Klein, was released after blocking the transfer of a Sergeant, from which he believed that he would soon take his parents' vacation. Klein denied misconduct.
  • Klein was found that Klein violates the guidelines of the department against opportunities for the same employment and maintain professional standards as a manager. It was released in January.
  • Klein has appealed against the city and police committee of the city. An appeal negotiation is planned for May 8th and 9th.
  • A police spokesman said Klein's dismissal was the only termination of a captain to which the department could remember.

A police captain of Milwaukee, who was previously suspended due to a slow response to a rape call, was fired after she had planned the transfer of an Sergeant from which he had planned to get pregnant and take family vacation, according to recent recordings.

The former captain, Roberta Klein, was then checked more because he told a colleague about the resulting internal investigation of her behavior, the records said.

A police spokesman said Klein's dismissal in January was the only termination of a captain to which the department could remember.

In the records, the allegations of Klein, which acts unprofessional and referred to another Sergeant as the “Little Nugget”, regularly clap the personal life of her female colleagues and discuss an explicit photo that was sent by an ex-boyfriend.

Klein did not answer several interview requests. According to the department documents, she denied the allegations in internal interviews.

She has submitted an appeal to try to get her job back to the city and police commission of the city, the civilian supervisory authority. The appeal procedures are planned for May 8th and 9th.

The police authority rejected it to provide an officer for an interview about the case. The Milwaukee Police Supervisor's organization, the union for the police supervisory authorities, refused an interview request.

In 2018, Klein was suspended for a slow reaction to a woman for six days who was kidnapped and raped. At that time, Klein and two other superiors worked in the 911 center of the department, which is now managed by a separate city department, as calls to the incident.

It took over an hour for civil servants to be sent, and later she told the investigators that it was “the worst night in which I worked”.

Small accused of discriminated against the family of the officials, the other used as a family vacation, according to reports

The current investigation began in January 2024, when a lieutenant stated that Klein's general crime department was short of “mutiny”, as recorded.

“(The lieutenant) asked whether captain was ripe enough to lead the department,” the report said.

The department is now known as a department for the main crimes and examines others other than murders or weapons.

According to internal matters:

Klein was accused of blocking a Sergeant transfer to her department because she believed that the woman planned to get a child and take their parents' vacation. This accusation was raised by a lieutenant and another sergeant against small.

The lieutenant also said Klein announced the personal health history of the female Sergeant when she explained why she thought, the Sergeant tried to get pregnant.

Several people said internal matters that Klein openly criticized the use of family vacation, including the SMS to other superiors of a lieutenant who applied for a free time after the death of a family member.

She suggested that those who used family vacation are “not dedicated to the department”, as internal records prove.

Klein was informed in January 2024 that it was examined. According to the department guideline, she was told that she should not disclose the investigation. However, the investigators learned that she showed another colleague a message about the investigation.

Klein's relationship with another police engraver, which she called “Little Nugget” and which was also examined – was examined in the investigation. A lieutenant told internal matters that the culture of the division was “affected a close relationship”, with the lieutenant feeling that was sergeant and small.

Klein's girlfriend, the Sergeant, was the person who revealed the medical information of the female Sergeant who later blocked Klein from the transfer.

The Sergeant, whose name is edited from Klein's records, denied that to tell her colleague's illness. Milwaukee's police rejected the name of the Sergeant, but said that the Sergeant had resigned during the examination.

Members of Klein's Division also said that they feared retaliation measures for reporting on their behavior and several described a meeting in which small-scale discussion was to get an explicit picture of an ex-boyfriend that made some people so uncomfortable that they had left the meeting early. A lieutenant said Klein often spoke in “allusions” during the meetings.

When the small affairs were asked, she denied that she violated the department's guidelines. She said that she hesitated her hesitation to transfer the female Sergeant, not to be due to concerns about the Sergeant's performance and behavioral problems, not to a possible pregnancy.

Klein told the investigator that she should not have revealed the internal examination of her behavior, but said she thought she was a “good captain” and “subordinate” confusing “hostility” with the accountability “”, “”

According to the latest records by Milwaukee from Milwaukee, Klein made $ 142,194 US dollars in Milwaukee gross.

David Clarey is a reporter of public security at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. It can be reached at dclarey@gannett.com.

This story has been updated to add video.

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