The San Jose police union, the San Jose Police Officers’ Association, today issued a scathing indictment of the police department’s internal affairs procedures and demanded that City Hall improve its oversight of those procedures.
The union demanded an end to what it called “a broken discipline process within the San Jose Police Department,” and released a video it contended “details criminal, unconstitutional, unethical and incompetent actions that are sanctioned by SJPD command staff and city administration leadership that have ruined police officer lives.”
In a statement released before the union’s noon press conference at union headquarters on North Fourth Street, president Steve Slack said the video shows evidence of “rampant corruption, falsehoods and incompetence.”…