We've been wondering about something.
Why is it when someone is arrested, booked and charged, News Affairs can't get that CB (Central Booking) photo out to the media quick enough? Seriously, it's a matter of hours if some truly heinous crime is committed, an arrest is made, the ASA can't find an excuse not to charge the offender, and the criminal's mugshot is all over the news. It seems even quicker if the alleged offender is a CPD officer attached to SOS.
We've been reading in a few comments and in more than a few e-mails that the CB photos for the recent incident in 008 don't match the photographs that lawyer Terry Ekl is circulating to the media purporting to show a female who was allegedly beaten while handcuffed in the back of a squad car, suffering a broken nose and eye socket.
These photos ought to be out there. At the very least, it would provide a visual counterpoint to the one sided barrage of reporting that is being used to beat this Department to death with. If the only thing the public sees is Ekl's pictures, they have nothing to compare them against, and what's left of our image suffers as a result.
So we're just wondering if what is alleged in our comments has any basis in reality. Do the CB photos that seem to surface in every other case show any such injury? Or do they pretty much shoot Ekl's case to pieces?
PLEASE NOTE: We are not encouraging anyone to break any rules. The Department can and will log everyone who views these photos. It's possible they might even block the photos from viewing at some point. We are looking for opinions from people who may have happened to see both the media photos and the CB photos.
Why is it when someone is arrested, booked and charged, News Affairs can't get that CB (Central Booking) photo out to the media quick enough? Seriously, it's a matter of hours if some truly heinous crime is committed, an arrest is made, the ASA can't find an excuse not to charge the offender, and the criminal's mugshot is all over the news. It seems even quicker if the alleged offender is a CPD officer attached to SOS.
We've been reading in a few comments and in more than a few e-mails that the CB photos for the recent incident in 008 don't match the photographs that lawyer Terry Ekl is circulating to the media purporting to show a female who was allegedly beaten while handcuffed in the back of a squad car, suffering a broken nose and eye socket.
These photos ought to be out there. At the very least, it would provide a visual counterpoint to the one sided barrage of reporting that is being used to beat this Department to death with. If the only thing the public sees is Ekl's pictures, they have nothing to compare them against, and what's left of our image suffers as a result.
So we're just wondering if what is alleged in our comments has any basis in reality. Do the CB photos that seem to surface in every other case show any such injury? Or do they pretty much shoot Ekl's case to pieces?
PLEASE NOTE: We are not encouraging anyone to break any rules. The Department can and will log everyone who views these photos. It's possible they might even block the photos from viewing at some point. We are looking for opinions from people who may have happened to see both the media photos and the CB photos.
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