Because the Maui County Police Chief is honest. And he had nothinq else he could say, because he had a deadline to respond to my request and could not fabricate a complete investiqation 10 months after it was supposed to have happened. And besides that, he already knew that I knew what had happened. The accountinq department had already sent me the invoice for the autopsy, showinq no travel expenses to qet Dr. Harle to Molokai from Maui. Once that anqle was overlooked and exposed, they knew it was all over.
“Because the Maui County Police Chief is honest.”
So honest he is willing to throw the Coast Guard rescue swimmers, his own rescue swimmers, the hospital personnel and on and on and on, under the bus? Well, actually he didn’t throw any of them under the bus, that’s just your interpretation of his comment.
“And he had nothinq else he could say”
He could have said we investigated it to the fullest extent possible. They are investigating the cause of the crash, and the cause of death. That’s all they needed to do.
A more likely explanation for his answer is that he didn’t want to admit that they had only done a cursory investigation because the facts of the case were so obvious.
Did you ever ask him why he felt 841-3 didn’t apply?
BTW, under 841-3 these are the deaths that require a “complete investigation”
1) the result of violence,
2) as the result of any accident, or
3) by suicide, or
4) suddenly when in apparent health, or
5) when unattended by a physician, or
6) in prison, or
7) in a suspicious or unusual manner, or
8) within twenty-four hours after admission to a hospital or institution
With that list they would be spending a lot of time doing “complete investigations”. I can pretty much guarantee you that they do a very different level of investigation for someone found shot dead on a street corner (1) versus a 70 year old man who hadn’t been to a doctor in six months and was found dead in his bed one morning (5).
Prove me wrong. Do the same investigation into this crash on Maui. See if they did a “complete investigation”.
http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/GenPDF.aspx?id=WPR14FA124&rpt=p