Sep 8th, 2010
Indianapolis Adult Entertainment: Fallout from fatal crash reaches Indy’s top cops
Straub and his boss, Mayor Greg Ballard, acknowledge that the outcry over the Aug. 6 accident and the investigation that followed, along with a scandal surrounding the beating of a 15-year-old boy during an arrest in May, have weakened public confidence in the city’s police. But with internal and FBI reviews incomplete, Ballard says neither Straub nor Police Chief Paul Ciesielski, a 23-year veteran who was appointed in February, are going anywhere.
“We get the facts, what actually happened, and then we can go forward from there,” Ballard said.
The department had already had a string of problems when Ballard plucked Straub from a seven-year stint as police commissioner of White Plains, N.Y., where he worked after serving as deputy commissioner of training for the New York Police Department in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
In the last two years, officers had been accused of trafficking drugs, arson, running a prostitution ring and taking bribes.
See the full article from “WANE”