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SDPD seeks "warm fuzzies"

You gotta accentuate the positive…

The cover page of the (allegedly) altered Federal review of the SDPD
The cover page of the (allegedly) altered Federal review of the SDPD

Just one week after U-T San Diego caught the San Diego Police Department editing its own Wikipedia page to remove pieces of negative information — or "cold pricklies" as a leaked SDPD memo referred to them — SD on the QT has uncovered evidence that they attempted to do similar editing to a U.S. Justice Department review of the SDPD's internal workings. A hard copy of the review left at a downtown Office Depot shows clear deviations from the version available for download at Justice.us.gov, particularly when it comes to the report's emphasis on officer misconduct, such as that of Anthony "Gropey" Arevalos and Chrisopher "Squeezy" Hays.

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Confronted about the discrepancies, SDPD Public Relations Liaison Ronald Whitewash admitted that the brand of whiteout employed to make the changes was the same brand used to correct "arrest reports within the Department that don't quite line up with our Mission Statement." But he denied any specific knowledge of the particulars of Operation Good Cop, Good Cop. He then denied any knowledge of anything called Operation Good Cop, Good Cop and said that the media was not helping matters.

"The fact of the matter is, police still commit fewer crimes than almost every other segment of the population. We're practically like Catholic priests. The other fact of the matter is, most of the time, when the police shoot someone or pull someone over and search them, they have a very good reason for it. And the other other fact of the matter is, people are missing the big picture. One of the so-called 'problems' cited in the report is that 23% of the supervisory sergeant roles were filled by 'acting' sergeants without enough real authority to monitor and correct officer behavior. Yes, that's a 'problem.' But what caused it? We didn't have enough qualified officers to do the job. Now answer me this: if you want to attract and keep qualified officers to a Department, should you go around talking about how it's a crap outfit riddled with cronyism and incompetence and sexual loose cannons and literal loose cannons and bullies and drunks? Or should you praise it for doing the best it can under difficult circumstances? Should you focus on the 17 recent cases of misconduct, or the countless cases of good conduct that never made the news? It's simple: if you want to attract good cops, put the spotlight on the good cops. If you want to attract bad cops…well, you get the point."

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The cover page of the (allegedly) altered Federal review of the SDPD
The cover page of the (allegedly) altered Federal review of the SDPD

Just one week after U-T San Diego caught the San Diego Police Department editing its own Wikipedia page to remove pieces of negative information — or "cold pricklies" as a leaked SDPD memo referred to them — SD on the QT has uncovered evidence that they attempted to do similar editing to a U.S. Justice Department review of the SDPD's internal workings. A hard copy of the review left at a downtown Office Depot shows clear deviations from the version available for download at Justice.us.gov, particularly when it comes to the report's emphasis on officer misconduct, such as that of Anthony "Gropey" Arevalos and Chrisopher "Squeezy" Hays.

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Confronted about the discrepancies, SDPD Public Relations Liaison Ronald Whitewash admitted that the brand of whiteout employed to make the changes was the same brand used to correct "arrest reports within the Department that don't quite line up with our Mission Statement." But he denied any specific knowledge of the particulars of Operation Good Cop, Good Cop. He then denied any knowledge of anything called Operation Good Cop, Good Cop and said that the media was not helping matters.

"The fact of the matter is, police still commit fewer crimes than almost every other segment of the population. We're practically like Catholic priests. The other fact of the matter is, most of the time, when the police shoot someone or pull someone over and search them, they have a very good reason for it. And the other other fact of the matter is, people are missing the big picture. One of the so-called 'problems' cited in the report is that 23% of the supervisory sergeant roles were filled by 'acting' sergeants without enough real authority to monitor and correct officer behavior. Yes, that's a 'problem.' But what caused it? We didn't have enough qualified officers to do the job. Now answer me this: if you want to attract and keep qualified officers to a Department, should you go around talking about how it's a crap outfit riddled with cronyism and incompetence and sexual loose cannons and literal loose cannons and bullies and drunks? Or should you praise it for doing the best it can under difficult circumstances? Should you focus on the 17 recent cases of misconduct, or the countless cases of good conduct that never made the news? It's simple: if you want to attract good cops, put the spotlight on the good cops. If you want to attract bad cops…well, you get the point."

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