...Refusal to provide information on a major force event will be interpreted as a cover-up, Willis explains, and often becomes the tipping point for determining how an incident plays out in a community. On other types of incidents, police give the facts as they know them and talk about the ongoing investigation, Willis says. When they refuse to do that after an OIS, it opens the door for self-appointed and alleged experts, politicians, and special interest groups to comment. And their comments are often based on rumor, innuendo, speculation--always based on emotion, rarely based on facts. Within the law enforcement community, no comment should no longer be acceptable, Willis declares. Police executives need to have the courage to give the facts as they know them, with the assurance that corrections will be made if necessary as the investigation progresses...
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 17:30:15 +0000
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