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.
