The Journal; "We are not done digging"

That was the Friday before last; June 13th, link.

The commitment; "we are not done digging", came at the end of a report on the demotion of an APS administrator under circumstances that were not clear then, are are no more clear now.  It followed by four days, an editorial weigh in on the same issue, link.

Journal reporter James Yodice wrote;

Without actual confirmation about the details of APS’ investigation – which it said this week was finished, barring the introduction of new evidence – what we’ve been left with over the past few weeks is a steady stream of rumors and innuendo.

Yodice asked;

Why is (the administrator) being moved?

and complained that

APS is refusing to say, which is less than satisfying.

and

... what is the evidence?

and he wondered;

Why, why, why?

The investigation was of course "internal"; another APS administrative self-investigation of administrative incompetence and or corruption.

The findings will remain "internal".  There will be no production of "ethically" redacted public records.  There will be no production of "legally" redacted records (unless and until they have spend all the money they can and still lost in litigation in their own interests in an effort to create an exception for themselves from the law).

There will be no production at all.

This though the power and resources in question belong fundamentally to the people, as does the truth about how they are being spent.

Yodice rightly (in part) opined;

APS... couldn’t end (the administrators) career, not without facing a probable lawsuit. Right?

He is only partly right because, not only could they not fire the administrator without a lock tight case, but they can't fire him with even with a good case because APS can't afford to end up in court.  Things would become known that the leadership of the APS would rather not become known.

It's what Gil Lovato's lawyer Sam Bregman was talking about when he told APS Modrall lawyer Art Melendres, that if Lovato and he ever got to court, there wouldn't be a single senior APS administrator left standing.

And then Yodice offered and asked;

So, what we are left with is the most nagging, pressing, irritating question of all.

Will the full truth ever be known?

The answer of course is, no.
The full truth will never be known,
ever.

When and where has the full truth on any corruption in
the leadership of the APS ever been known?

It's not the way they roll.
Not APS; not the establishment's press.

Yodice ended the report with the commitment to the people
whose power and resources are being played with in the dark;

Let’s hope (the truth will someday be told).
We are not done digging.

That was ten days ago.

Is he, are they, still digging?

• It has been more than four months since APS Chief of Police Steve Tellez was sent packing.  For what?  We still don't know.  We don't know who is holding up the BCSO Tellez investigation.

Is the Journal still digging on that one?

• It has been more than seven years since APS Chief of Police Gil Lovato was sent packing.  Senior APS administrators were involved in felony criminal misconduct.  They've been covering it up ever since.

Is the Journal still digging on that one?

Yeah, they're still digging on them.

Right,
and a pint of Häagen-Dazs serves four.