He said the LAPD's internal investigation of such shootings must improve. This is an extraordinary and extraordinarily complex situation. We need to proceed aggressively, but deliberately. Management is looking for a scapegoat. But street cops follow orders.
Orders come from the top.
However, the probe has taken longer than expected, officials said, and is now scheduled to be released publicly later this month. In his report to the commission, Parks referred back to the LAPD's last major corruption case, which involved vice officers in the 1950s and 1960s, and noted that safeguards implemented in vice operations after that scandal have proved very successful over the years. Therefore, we believe it is necessary to emulate those systems . As part of the LAPD's internal probe, investigators developed profiles of several officers caught up in the corruption scandal. Yet we staff these units with the basic ranks and all too often fill many of these positions with officers barely off probation.