LAPD officer is suing the department, alleging supervisors ignored sexual harassment

Sgt. Darcy French says she was targeted in an online harassment campaign because she reported her colleagues for sharing sexist memes.

She says she reported the conduct to her higher-ups in late summer 2020, hoping they would intervene.

Instead, her lawsuit alleges, the complaint was ignored for months, and then her superiors “orchestrated a series of actions” meant to discredit and retaliate against her for reporting the abuse.

French alleges that department leadership retaliated against her by “initiating several frivolous complaints” She says she shared her complaints of the department’s “failure to condemn and remedy the derogatory and demeaning” online posts in a letter to the Los Angeles County Professional Peace Officers Assn. She eventually transferred out of Southeast, where she had spent the previous five years, unable to bear the ongoing harassment.