Former (Georgia) Police Lieutenant Sexually Harassed Subordinate Officers
🚨 Extortion, Quid Pro Quo & Harassment ALERT 🚨
Just north of the Atlanta area, there stand two landmark buildings towering over GA Highway 400 and Interstate 285. The King & Queen buildings, located in Sandy Springs, Georgia, are monumental business structures that millions of people pass each year. The King & Queen buildings overlook the numerous innovative cities that have begun to appear across the vast landscape of the once unincorporated areas of Atlanta, Georgia. These fledgling cities are rising wherever their local citizens need the ability to coordinate significant community resources. For example: Forming a police department. Some cities, blazon themselves as “smart cities” by advancing technology and civil-rights beyond the standard “city” infrastructure.
What happens when a “smart city” becomes corrupted by a select few in an 11-year-old police department? The unimaginable.
Enter, Stage Left: The Dunwoody Police Department, and, their not-so "serving with distinction" command staff.
Under the leadership of longtime law enforcement officer, Chief William “Billy” Grogan, the Dunwoody Police Department appears to stand tall and proud amongst the slogan on their patrol cars: “Serving with Distinction”
A Selective-Memory Command Story
 Recently, it has been revealed that the “distinction” mentioned on their police cars is more of a guideline than a descriptive for their service. Their distinction falls short of actually serving proudly, but instead, abusing their officers to get ahead. Chief “Billy” Grogan has allowed for a seemingly positive work-place culture to be a ruse for all that come to work for the department. If you talk to the officers, especially at the ground level, they quickly reveal their disgruntled and often ignored complaints about intimidation, quid pro quo harassment, biased hiring practices, and extensive sexual harassment. Seconded only by Deputy Chief David Barnes, Grogan has crafted a police department that permeates the nightmares of civil rights activists everywhere. Dominated by fear, intimidation, false statements, harassment, blackmail, and a random employee being made as a “public example” of what can go wrong when you speak out, at least once, every two years.
Imagine this: Your supervisor’s Manager, suddenly sends you a group message saying he “wants to kiss those lips” followed by “... let’s fuck.”
Grogan, although receiving various complaints of Officers being harassed by Lieutenant Fidel Espinoza & Major Oliver P. Fladrich, adamantly denies that he had any previous knowledge of such complaints. Grogan's selective memory seems to be unable to recall the several emails, meetings, and human resources complaints submitted referencing both Lieutenant Espinoza & Major Fladrich. When several officers were either personally victimized, harassed, or learned of their coworkers being sexually harassed, they spoke out. Four officers decided to take a stand against their harassers and here are the results of their courage:
- One of those officers was terminated (and any mention of Espinoza in his interviews was removed)...
- One of those officers was forced to meet with the Chief and intimidated to reveal details about the coming lawsuit...
- One of those officers received bad reviews from Dunwoody when applying elsewhere
- The final officer was barred from going to another department during the final interview process after coming forward about his harassment...
- and so much more...
An issue of "Major" Concern
When the ball of harassment begins rolling, it immediately falls onto the shoulders of the next-level supervisor to put an end to that type of behavior. For the Dunwoody Police, enter into the picture, one daring and surely not-a-criminal (maybe) Major Oliver P. Fladrich over the Patrol Division.
Major Fladrich came to serve the City of Dunwoody fearlessly after being forced to resign from his position as the Deputy Chief of the Douglasville Police Department. At that department, Fladrich decided that he would venture into a new calling for his line of work: Arts & Crafts. Fladrich believed that the Douglasville Police Department deserved a new super-cool "gun memorial" in their world to brighten up their day. At least, that's what Fladrich told investigators when they questioned him during his internal affairs investigation. Even more resourceful than his answers to investigators, Fladrich had come into possession of over 50 firearms, including a sniper rifle that was to be used by the SWAT Team, a silencer, and even a pair of brass knuckles from the evidence room at the Douglasville Police Department. Many of those firearms were missing proper paperwork and Fladrich "could not recall" exactly how he came into the possession of some of them. Fladrich was quick to help form the Dunwoody Police Department in 2009, in the wake of the damage he left at the Douglasville Police Department.
In a case of the blind leading the blind, under the command of Oliver Fladrich, was Lieutenant Espinoza himself. The plot thickens when you realize that there was a pattern of repeated behavior, coverups and blackmail:
- One Sergeant reported directly to Lieutenant Espinoza for years. He was arrested for Driving Under the Influence, and lied to either the Georgia State Patrol or the Dunwoody Police IA Investigators by stating that he "doesn't even drink hard liquor." That Sergeant was supposed to be on call at the time of his arrest.
- Another Sergeant reported directly to Major Oliver Fladrich for years. That Sergeant just recently lied to the Jefferson Police Investigators, or the Dunwoody Police IA Investigators, when he told investigators his gun was secure in his home when it was used to accidentally inflict a gunshot wound, by a child, on another child. He then reportedly mentioned the other Sergeant's punishment and demanded similar treatment for this case (and received it).Â
Both Sergeants were not demoted but instead suspended for several days. As similar to the allowed resignation of Lieutenant Espinoza, just before the whistleblower officers were targeted.
Message to "Billy" Grogan:
Tell us, Billy:Â What does it feel like when you flush 30+ years of notable law enforcement experience, morals, and ethical practices to protect a proven sexual predator? Remarkably, while you additionally endeavor to injure the careers of the victims, at the very same time.
We wouldn't know but we're asking for a friend.
Links to Official/Social Media Profiles:
(Former)Â Lieutenant Fidel Espinoza
Dunwoody Police Official Website
City of Dunwoody Official Website
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