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The ruling and opposition parties Wednesday urged Huh Joon-young, commissioner-general of the National Policy Agency, to resign over the deaths of two farmers caused by tough crackdown of riot police.
On Thursday, President Roh Moo-hyun made an apology one day after the National Human Rights Commission announced that the two farmers, Chon Yong-chol and Hong Tok-pyo, were presumed to have died due to police brutality during the clash on Nov. 15.
President Roh, however, refrained from making any specific remarks whether the police chief should resign. He said he does not ... Read more
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Andy Sheehan
31 March 2006
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Man Tries To Restore Integrity
KDKA) PITTSBURGH Bill Mullen was still hard at work as Deputy Police Chief this week, putting the final toughes on 37 years with a police department, which he feels hasn’t gotten it’s due.
“I think the police force is under appreciated and under-rated. I think it’s a very, very good police force.
Mullen has been deputy chief in years that landed the department under a federal consent decree to reform, a decree which he felt unfairly singled out Pittsburgh. But he believes the department will weather this and other problems with professionalism.
“In spite of the consent decree and the unfortunate layoff of 106 officers, we still had the lowest crime rate in 2005 than we had in 10 years, and I think that says a lot for the people working the streets,” he said.
And Mullen has done more than his fair share. As a lieutenant in the 1980’s, he commanded the homicide division when more than 90 percent of the murders ended in convictions.
“Times were a little different then. That was before the gangs. When the gangs came in they started intimidating the witnesses and that changed the complexity of the solution rate,” explained Mullen.
And he, heading some very high-profiled investigations, including that of the so-called Shadyside Rapist, who terrorized the city’s east end neighborhoods for months.
The case was solved through exhaustive detective work. Still, Mullen deflects credit for this and other cases where arrests and convictions were obtained.
“I’ve been fortunate to be in the right place at the right time, making arrests and being taught by some very good people and having some very good people working for me and with me,” he said.
After nearly four decades of solving homicides and rapes, Bill Mullen will end his career at the sheriff’s office. His task – to restore integrity to a department under a cloud of corruption.
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