During his 29 years with the Honolulu Police Department, Darren Cachola was repeatedly accused of violently assaulting women, fired after a video surfaced of him hitting his girlfriend in a restaurant and sued for his role supervising DUI checkpoints where sober drivers were arrested.
Though his well-publicized bad behavior repeatedly tarnished the police department, Cachola always managed to walk away unscathed, regaining his job and clocking in enough overtime hours in his final years on the force to retire on Aug. 1 with a pension that could approach what the chief earns.
As a final goodbye to policing, Cachola distributed a flyer inviting family and friends to a retirement party on Aug. 22. It reads “The man, the myth, the legend” and contains a photo of a protester holding a sign with Cachola’s face next to the faces of Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd in 2020, and George Zimmerman, the Florida neighborhood watch volunteer who shot and killed Trayvon Martin in 2012…