Community Activist States the Truth.

Citizens Against Police Brutality & Misconduct--President Theodore “Teddy”Loria who has successfully sued the Rochester, N.Y. Police Department four separate times in federal court back in the 1990’s for violating his civil rights, and currently has a fifth (5th) lawsuit and also a sixth (6th) lawsuit pending in federal court.

Loria said “The police department make it seem like the CRB process is fair and open but everybody knows that Internal Affairs is very corrupt and extremely bias because the process favors the police.”

Loria’s suggestion to improve the CRB:

“You need an independent body that has no interest in the outcome whether it’s favorable or not favorable--to investigate claims especially for an institution (CRB) set up to protect the civil rights of residents.” Loria said “the City of Rochester, N.Y. is a Municipal Corporation, “Business” like Kodak, Xerox and Wegmans, and it is imperative that as a business, they protect their interests, which is why they have to be in control of the complaint process.” The City (Police Department and Internal Affairs) therefore, needs to make sure that the outcome of any complaint is in their favor.
The City can not allow complaints of serious allegations of Brutality, False Arrest and Misconduct, to be investigated by an independent agency--that has no interest in the outcome whether it’s favorable or not favorable--because they would be sustained on a regular basis due to Rochester Police Department’s long history of systematic pattern and practice of violating citizens civil rights, and especially minorities, on a daily basis here in Rochester, New York, as this would then set the stage for the City of Rochester, N.Y. and its police department to be held liable in federal civil rights lawsuits, which would eventually cause the City to go bankrupt and leave them with no money. So, as in any corporation, the City therefore has a vested interest in controlling the outcome of any serious complaint. In some cases petty incidents may be sustained as the City needs to have those few minor complaints sustained so as to give a false impression that they can do a fair and impartial investigation, because in the end they know that these minor incidents cannot result in a lawsuit.

Very truly yours,
President
Theodore “Teddy” Loria