PHILADELPHIA – In March 2020, the Philadelphia Police Department announced that Officer Jesse Alvarez had been suspended for 30 days with the intent to dismiss after he was arrested for domestic violence.
A woman had obtained a protection-from-abuse order against Alvarez and told Internal Affairs investigators that he had burned her with an iron, choked her, and put a gun to her head. He denied the allegations.
Alvarez later had the charges dismissed after he completed an “intimate partner abuse” diversionary program, and, in the words of the program’s director, “took accountability for his behavior.”…