Detective Cid is now working at the LAPD's Hollenbeck Station. Approached there at the front desk and asked about Russell Poole's allegations, Cid became frightened and defensive, waving the reporter away. It's not for me to say. I can't say anything. Law enforcement experts outside the LAPD who were asked to review a copy of Poole's report told Salon it seemed solid and credible.
Nothing looks manufactured or trumped up.
He did everything by the book and the evidence pops up by itself. That's how a good investigation is done. Landsman also said that if Poole's superiors thought the report was not up to department standards, the proper procedure would have been to send it back to him to do it over. Other LAPD sources concurred. According to Joseph McNamara, a retired police chief of San Jose and Kansas City who has written extensively about the LAPD, the department's handling of Officer Perez is a textbook case of damage control getting priority over the truth.