Officer Crawford Of Marengo Resigns

Officer Crawford resigned from the Marengo Police Department for the following reason: he lied on his job application, took part in an improper high-speed chase, and fostered a hostile work environment in the Marengo Police Department. At the Fire and Police Commission Hearing in Marengo, Officer Crawford decided to resign before the commission would question him about the following charges. What did the charges involve that he was so reluctant to be questioned about?
I don’t know what kind of high speed chase Crawford might have been involved in, but the charge about lying on his job application involves the reasons on why he resigned from the Waukegan Police Department. The reason he resigned is because he was caught on video tape beating up a prisoner who was in his custody, in handcuffs. I imagine he did not want the Marengo Police to know about this interesting fact before he was hired. What did he do to create a hostile work environment? He harassed a female police officer, Officer Bass, and called her house repeatedly with threatening phone calls after she got promoted ahead of him.
What else did Scott Crawford do that the Marengo Police Department and the City of Marengo do not want us to know about?
He brutally attacked numerous young people in Marengo. One 14 year old boy, Steve Beisner, was brutally beat up because Crawford thought he was 18 years old and the boy could not produce an ID. He threw him against the wall, punched him in the stomach numerous times, and pepper sprayed him over 3 times, until he could not breathe. Paramedics had to be called and the boy was taken into intensive care with burns over his face and neck, as well as other serious injuries. Crawford should be thankful that he is still alive. The total number of people who Crawford beat up, then falsely charged numbers into the two digits, though there may be far, far more who did not come forward yet. Crawford was suspended numerous times. Another little fact that the Marengo Police would not want people to know about.
This is a person who the prosecutors in the Gaughan case want to use as a witness against them. Would you consider his testimony reliable?


May 28, 2006