The head of the watchdog agency that investigates Pittsburgh’s police said Tuesday that Mayor Ed Gainey’s administration has lacked transparency when it comes to law enforcement.
“This administration has not been transparent, they have not been cooperative, they have not assisted this board in fulfilling your chartered mission, your mandate from the people,” said Beth Pittinger, executive director of the independent Citizen Police Review Board [CPRB], during a public meeting of the board’s members. “They have said that they are cooperative, they have said that they are transparent. They are not.”
The statement came as the board prepares to launch a formal investigation into a forceful June 10 arrest in the North Side, during which several officers pulled a disabled Black man out of a car, pinned him to the ground and carried him across the street…