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A backlog of excessive-force complaints against Chicago police officers has grown so large that the agency charged with investigating cops is planning to hire outside investigators to help catch up.
Each of the Independent Police Review Authority's investigators has been carrying a caseload of more than 30, and the number is growing, a problem that the new chief administrator, Ilana Rosenzweig, said is unacceptable.
When Rosenzweig took over the IPRA, formerly known as the Office of Professional Standards, last summer, she inherited a backlog of more than 1,200 cases. That nu... Read more
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24 August 2007
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Former auditor urges covert co
Former auditor-general Ken MacPherson says covert operations should be considered as a way to uncover corruption in South Australia.
In a speech today, he said it frightens him to hear that a Police Commissioner's inquiry has been ordered into serious incidents involving police.
The State Government is not in favour of an independent commission against corruption in SA and a spokeswoman for the Police Commissioner has declined to comment on Mr MacPherson's views.
Mr MacPherson argues that police investigating police is a fundamentally flawed idea.
"It frightens me every time I hear something along the phrase of 'it's going to be a commissioner's inquiry'," he said.
"A Commissioner's inquiry into the police: it's like the chief lion looking into the lions' den.
"It just doesn't work. History is evidence to the fact that these arrangements are unsafe."
Mr MacPherson argues that greater accountability is needed.
"I was curious to read the legislation relating to the Police Complaints Authority here in South Australia to find that the secrecy arrangements that apply in relation to that are quite extraordinary," he said.
"That really means that ... law enforcement agencies, the police in this state, don't have the accountability that I think is appropriate."
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