On a Reddit thread, fans weighed in on their thoughts about the show. What makes “Chicago PD” so controversial, one fan wrote, is the fact that the officers are not upstanding citizens. “Worst of all is the fact that the top cops on the show are corrupt, evil people every bit as bad as the criminals they takedown,” they added, “Hank Voight is a monster on the show. He literally has a cage that he calls ‘the cage,’ where he orders suspects (and others) to be taken so they can be beaten, tortured and threatened with death while he pumps them for confessions or information.”
There have been some episodes of “Chicago PD” that show the context these fans are upset about. Several episodes that center around Hank Voight have aged poorly. According to Distractify, Vought’s dirty cop mentality has left fans feeling uncomfortable. At the end of the show’s eighth season, Voight covered up an accidental shooting by one of his fellow officers. Given the current political climate and the real-life police shooting coverups we have seen over the last several years, this episode was insensitive and left fans angry.
