And why is the newbie City Manager talking to the officer's superiors. Isn't he breaking the chain of command, bypassing the Police Chief? Where is Chalmers?
http://www.nbc17.com/news/9194586/detail.html
(City Manager Patrick) Baker told NBC17 he has not spoken to the officer who the Duke officer allegedly overheard, but he has spoken to the officer's superiors. The only comment they had about the Duke officer's account was that no one on the Durham police force knows the source of the accuser's initial statement about being raped by 20 men.
The idea that DPD couldn't figure out who was overheard saying that Crystal claimed 20 men raped her and had changed her story, is simply false. The can and undoubtedly did figure out who said that within 10 minutes.
The City Manager is not in the know and therefore can plausibly claim to reporters when asked that he doesn't personally know which officer it was, and that senior people in the DPD he talked to didn't tell him.
As an aside, I would bet that the Duke campus security officers don't get a lot of respect from the Durham PD and so it is not surprising that a Duke officer is trying to learn something about what happened by looking over the shoulders of or overhearing talk among the Durham police officers.