Still, he says, he would have liked to have known to ask.
The limited information McCreary says he was able to learn about Daly before he hired him is pretty much all any police department can learn about applicants when calling former departments – something McCreary and others say is a problem.
But help may soon be on the way.
“We have to get better from the outset and not try and make up ground when something bad happens,” he said. “We have to find a way to share this information in a legal manner, that doesn t get us sued every time we share something out of someone’s file.”