that. and it was frustrating particularly to me because i had investigated murders as a police officer for over ten years. so i as a police officer, i knew the thought process of officers and i also knew how to review evidence and dissect statements. and try to make those align and when they didn t i always followed the evidence. so ultimately you re feeling you left ipra was that the process was not fundamentally independent fair that there was some bias throughout the process in favor of police officers you were investigating. yes. ultimately that was my feeling. because there were several officers on the police department that had several complaints against them. and yet they still worked on the agency. regardless of what our investigation showed. we could not get the states
when different scenarios were presented, we got pushback on that. and it was frustrating particularly to me because i had investigated murders as a police officer for over ten years. so i as a police officer, i knew the thought process of officers and i also knew how to review evidence and dissect statements. and try to make those align and when they didn t, i always followed the evidence. so ultimately you re feeling you left ipra was that the process was not fundamentally independent fair, that there was some bias throughout the process in favor of police officers you were investigating. yes. ultimately that was my feeling. because there were several officers on the police department that had several complaints against them. and yet they still worked on the agency. regardless of what our investigation showed. we could not get the states
bosses, it was pushed back. when different scenarios were presented, we got pushed back on that. it was frustrating, particularly to me because i had investigated murders as a police officer for over ten years. so as a police officer i knew the thought process of officers and i also knew how to review evidence and dissect statements and try to make those align. when they didn t i always followed the evidence. so ultimately your feeling when you left ipra was that the process was not fundamentally fair, there was bias process? that was my feeling. there were several officers on the chicago police department that had multiple complaints against them and yet they still work on the agency regardless of
davis rejected the recommendations of his subordinates and told them to change their recommendations. now, tonight we have someone else who worked there and left frustrated with what he saw there. he works for a similar review board in oakland now. executive director of the citizen police review board in oakland, california. former investigator at ipra in chicago. mr. finnell what was your experience of ipra like? well, initially and first let me start out by saying thank you for having me chris. but initially my experience was a pretty good experience at ipra. i received a team of investigators. and we worked our cases. i began to have frustrations when particularly with some of our officer-involved shootings, the evidence didn t support the officer s statements. and then when the investigators tried to present those cases to close those cases and present
review the security footage they discovered that video was missing. in a statement ipra said we have no credible evidence at this time that would cause us to believe cpd purged or erased any surveillance video. according to the district managerer for burger king all of the cameras and the recorder were on and working properly the night of the shooting. so what happened? he believes that one of the officers deleted files. we had no idea terp going to sit there and delete the files, jay darshane said by telephone on friday. i mean we were just trying to help the police officer. the irony of the missing video, all sides agree, is it would not have shown the shooting. but according to lawyers for the mcdonald family it could have shown events leading up to it. our first time down at the burger king restaurant when we realized video was deleted or is