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    The Federal Police Inspector General is conducting random audits

    By jollyroger on Sat, 05/09/2015 - 8:39am |
     
     
     
    Well, at least that's what we might wish for, starting with the creation of such an office...
     

     In point of more specific fact, the epidemic of citizen journalism that has broken out to the effect that atrocities as old as the emergence of municipal police forces from the gang substrates that preceded them are suddenly visible, as are,  (perhaps more importantly), the casual falsifications that have obscured and enabled them..

     
    Thus, where previously only for the most part large urban paramilitary policing practices have drawn Federal scrutiny, now we will be privy to interesting experiments in Ferguson, Baltimore and Cleveland.
     
    These departments will now face what we might think of as a random audit if it were to be applied prospectively, that is to say, without the necessity of  atrocities coming to light as a condition precedent.
     
    This, in part, is the thrust of the current  widespread calls for Fedral authority to supersede local investigation of any police related death.
     
    This, of course, would be welcome, but is flawed as being retrospective only.
     
    Ask yourself:  If tjhe names of cities were to be drawn from a hat, and 1% of the official police reports filed over the last  month subjected to verification, would we, after such analysis, consider ourselves well  protected and served?

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    On a purely local level, an office of Inspector General of the New York City   Police Department has been created since the election of a new, more progressive , City Council.


    by jollyroger on Sat, 05/09/2015 - 8:53am