The Move Towards Less Accountability

[patric]

Records no longer being made available to the public include uses of force, citizen searches, officer complaints and when officers stopped and questioned residents on the street.

"I think it's a real step backwards in terms of the management of the department and its relationship in the minority communities," Bullock said. "To step back from transparency is a very disappointing step for the department and suggests that they wish to hide the way that they are operating instead of addressing the problems shown by the data."

"It seems to me one of the things the department should be doing is holding itself more accountable and assuring the public that it is holding itself accountable for the way officers conduct themselves in this city."
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20120605_11_A1_TheTul465151

A law enforcement watchdog group, dubbed The National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project (NPMSRP), recently released its 2010 numbers on police misconduct tracked across the United States.  Tulsa ranked 3rd in the nation for police misconduct complaints.

[AquaMan]

Finally we are leading the pack...and its for the wrong thing.

[Townsend]

Finally we are leading the pack...and its for the wrong thing.

Easy, they may beat you down and not tell anyone.

[Conan71]

Why should Bullock care?  He's made a small fortune off the dysfunction in TPD.

[sauerkraut]

We're going the wrong way.

[carltonplace]

We're going the wrong way.

I'm expecting our Dyanmic go-getter govenor Falin to get us turned around though.