Detroit — A man who investigates alleged wrongdoing by Detroit police officers is himself the target of a probe by the FBI’s Public Corruption…
Detroit — A man who investigates alleged wrongdoing by Detroit police officers is himself the target of a probe by the FBI’s Public Corruption Unit, law enforcement officials said.
The case involves a member of the Office of the Chief Investigator, the arm of the Detroit Board of Police Commissioners that looks into non-criminal citizen complaints against city cops.
The civilian investigator claimed he interviewed a Detroit police officer after a citizen complained the cop had leveled a shotgun at him without cause — but the interview allegedly never happened, police and union officials said.
Police chief James Craig said he asked an outside law enforcement agency to look into the allegations.
“When this came to my attention, I asked Michigan State Police to investigate, since it would be an obvious conflict of interest for our people to handle it,” Craig said. “The MSP investigator who got the case works on a federal task force, so the FBI is now looking into it.
