Report cautions the department about its elite team of officers developing an “us versus them” attitude, pointing to common tattoos and “challenge coins.”
An independent probe commissioned by Santa Ana Police Chief David Valentin has concluded that an elite team of officers sharing skull tattoos and implicated in an off-duty assault allegation is not operating as an illegal police gang.
“Too often, crime suppression teams have taken their mandate to address dangerous behavior as a license to engage in harassment and excessive force toward targeted groups — often without proper supervision and accountability,” the OIR report said. “We do not have reason to believe this is true in Santa Ana.”While it was completed last month, the report was not released until Wednesday, April 5.
Relatives of the two girls called police, but responding officers labeled the victims as uncooperative, and concluded a crime had not been committed. “A serious allegation of sexual battery had been made against officers under his command. Yet the supervisor did not report the allegation to his agency,” said the report. “Ideally, the supervisor would have called and asked for a police response immediately upon hearing the allegation. Instead, he decided to leave the scene with his colleagues.”
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