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talltex wrote:The department should have announced they were having an outside agency conduct an investigation immediately. Their failure to do so just fuels the fire that this incident has created, and every day that they continue to delay doing so, further undermines the FWPD's credibilty with the people they are sworn to "protect and serve". They are in a public relations nightmare, and their insistence that they are conducting a "thorough and transparent" investigation "in-house" just fans the flames of public suspicion and distrust which will continue for weeks or months until the results are released. They may very well conduct an exemplary investigation themselves, but regardless of their conclusion, the damage to their image and the ill will generated from now until it is completed, will be tremendous. Possibly, the department is "too close to the trees to see the forest" because they view it as a personal attack on their integrity. If so, the Mayor and City Council need to step in and insist they back away and let someone else take charge of it, in the best interest of everyone.