He knew then he wanted to be a police officer but Mayor Richard J. Daley was fighting when it came to desegregating the CPD.
He was president of his fraternity, Phi Beta Sigma and the first sophomore to be picked resident assistant.
[3] He graduated with a BA in speech communication and radio/TV production with a teacher certification which led to substitute teaching for three years at the grammar school he had attended.
[3] He moved to work on hate crimes in the Civil Rights Division in 1992 that he came out to the Trib.
[3] When he started at the Civil Rights Division, crimes against gays were the largest number of cases followed by Anti- Semitic and then racially based.