Sounds like those “evil” Ferguson cops handed it off to avoid investigating themselves.
It is almost standard procedure, in incidents like these, for the city to hand the case over to the county, and then ultimately to the State Police. It’s to avoid the appearance of impropriety, to avoid the assumption of a cover up. It’s a stand-up way to do things.
And we should not expect to see a copy of the police report until or if charges are filed. And that report should be issued by the prosecutor’s office, not the issuing agency. Until a warrant is issued, everything is considered “under review” and not eligible for FOIA or public release.
All this makes the protesters and the big wigs look like idiots who don’t know how our criminal justice system works. It makes them look like they failed Government class...at the HIGH SCHOOL level!!!
I read this was true. That ST. L County filed the shooting report.
BUT, in the police report of the robbery, they give the IR numbers of the report by the STLCounty police.
Here is the robbery police report.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2014/images/08/15/ferguson-police-report.pdf
“It is worth mentioning that this incident is related to another incident detailed under Ferguson Police Report #2014-12391 as well as St. Louis County Police Report #2014-43984.”
Seems it should be easy to find. It isn’t.
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When you tamper with somebody else’s process you have little standing to criticize the results.