LAT:
Confidential LAPD misconduct files mistakenly posted on Internet
A clerical error is blamed for the disclosure, which violates the Police Commission’s own privacy policy, and perhaps state law.
The Los Angeles Police Commission violated its own strict privacy policy — and perhaps state law — on Friday, releasing a confidential report on the Internet that contained the names of hundreds of officers accused of racial profiling and other misconduct.
The blunder, which police officials attributed to a clerical error, marks an embarrassing misstep for a police department that has staunchly rebuffed efforts by the public to learn the identities of accused officers and gain greater access to the discipline process.
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Word of the report sent the department and commission into damage-control mode. The website was taken down within an hour while representatives from the commission and Police Chief William J. Bratton’s command staff called the president of the union that represents 9,500 rank-and-file officers to apologize.
I guess they don’t realize that there’s no such thing as unringing a bell when it comes to the internet. And I don’t think it was an accident — I bet some black, Hispanic or white liberal employee deliberately leaked the list, because they want black and/or Hispanic gangs or thug types to murder such cops. Not that they’ll ever tell us, but mark me: Something bad will happen to at least one of these cops.
