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* “City To Quit Ordering Police-Shooting Investigators To Change Findings”…

The agency that probes shootings by Chicago police says it will no longer order investigators to change their findings.

Sharon Fairley, chief administrator of the city’s Independent Police Review Authority, said at a Wednesday news conference that investigators can stick to their findings even if superiors overturn them.

Fairley also promised a paper trail in the case file. “We would document that kind of conflict going forward,” she said.

WBEZ revealed that Scott Ando, Fairley’s predecessor, fired Supervising Investigator Lorenzo Davis last July after he resisted orders to change findings that officers were at fault in six shooting cases.

posted by Rich Miller
Friday, Mar 25, 16 @ 8:21 am

Comments

It is IL; corollary: It is Chicago.

Comment by sal-says Friday, Mar 25, 16 @ 8:28 am
Really?

Sounds like the Authority isn’t serving any useful purpose.

Comment by Sir Reel Friday, Mar 25, 16 @ 8:38 am
What this means in short is that we will find another way around it. Just needed to satisfy this issue.

Comment by Anonymous Friday, Mar 25, 16 @ 8:43 am
Here’s a thought, have the Superiors do the investigation , problem solved.-snark off…..

Comment by Slippin' Jimmy Friday, Mar 25, 16 @ 9:03 am
Oy. Oy all around.

Comment by Boone's is Back Friday, Mar 25, 16 @ 9:56 am
Great CapFax headline.

Comment by Mike Friday, Mar 25, 16 @ 10:14 am
When I was a junior auditor years ago, the rule was that comments could not be changed by Supervisors without approval of the person who wrote the comment. It is basic to accountability.

Comment by Last Bull Moose Friday, Mar 25, 16 @ 10:46 am
“When I was a junior auditor years ago, the rule was that comments could not be changed by Supervisors without approval of the person who wrote the comment. It is basic to accountability.”

If we need accountability we wouldn’t “encourage (threaten the job of)” the investigators to change their own opinion. This keeps the dirt off of upper management. Everyone else is disposable when itcomes down to it.

The Chicago justice system is simply despicable and corrupt. Can you imagine all the families with so many unanswered questions about their loved ones’ who were shot/murdered at the hands of law enforcement? Now we waste more tax dollars reviewing ’selective’ cases that ought to have been conducted properly the first time.

Comment by Anonymous Friday, Mar 25, 16 @ 11:34 am
When Chicago stops paying the legal bills for police that commit crimes, unjustified shootings will decline by 90% overnight.

If city investigators have video footage of police, then it won’t be up to someone’s version of a report. The SB1304 Body Cam bill does not have criminal penalties for police who destroy video. The problem is not Chicago, it’s the good old boy Reps. and police unions in Springfield.

Comment by Payback Friday, Mar 25, 16 @ 11:57 am