"I was a hard-working cop. I never hurt anybody. I never kidnapped anybody. ... I never did any of this." ---Ex-NYPD officer Louis Eppolito told U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein while being sentenced to life in prison. It's been over a month and still no news from the Governmental Affairs Committe...

I don't know, I'm making this up as I go. ---Raiders of the Lost Ark but in Riverside, this statement might have an entirely different meaning. The Riverside Police Department hosted its Community/Police Summit for the Neighborhood Policing Center eastern area at the expansive Orange Terrace Center ...

Another month, another letter in the Press Enterprise by retired Riverside Police Department Det. Granville "Bud" Kelley who despite despising the Community Police Review Commission and calling it a variety of colorful metaphors in his letters and calling for its disbandment has applied to serve on ...

Riverside's Community Police Review Commission has finally brought its long-missing annual report back from the dusty storage bin into its orbit by placing an item on the agenda for its meeting on Feb. 25 that discusses its upcoming report. It's been ages since the release of a public report and the...

But February made me shiver With every paper I'd deliver. Bad news on the doorstep; I couldn't take one more step. I can't remember if I cried When I read about his widowed bride, But something touched me deep inside The day the music died. ---Don McLean, "America Pie" The day the music died... (Feb...

Los Angeles Police Department Sgt. Wayne Guillary who alleged that he was racially profiled by Riverside Police Department officers during an incident at his house in October wants the department to expedite its Internal Affairs Investigation. The police chief repeated his earlier comments that he m...

“There is no question that we have seen a sea change in police-community relations since Rudy Giuliani’s administration. There’s also no question that we have light years to go before we can say that the problems have been resolved.� ---- New York City Councilman James Sanders, jr. "In gener...

Mayor Ron Loveridge in Riverside told the Press Enterprise last week that the Governmental Affairs Committee would be addressing the ongoing issue revolving around independent investigations of officer-involved deaths with the Community Police Review Commission this month yet according to a represen...

“The interview of Officer Goodrich was so replete with leading questions and ‘questions’ which misstated prior testimony of Officer Goodrich that it raised questions in the minds of the panel members as to what was actually the subject officer’s version of the occurrence (as opposed to the i...

"The issue is: Do the citizens have confidence in (the internal affairs process)? If they don’t, they’re not going to use it. … Give the people an independent investigation, not by a police officer." ---Ronal C. Madnick, ACLU “What I see is a sort of a cross-examination of the person that is...