The department investigates, takes the results to the City Prosecutor's Office, which concludes there is no need to press charges.
Officers go back to work.
End of story. The question came up again last week with a city prosecutor's determination that two police officers acted in self-defense when they fired at a motorist they said was trying to run them down last spring. Fortunately, no one was seriously injured in the incident. The motorist, a woman, was captured later. We have no reason to quarrel with the prosecutor's decision, but we continue to believe the matter should not rest there.