Timeline for Is there any report card/accountability for Judges, Police Departments, and Officers?
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| Aug 30, 2016 at 20:54 | comment | added | phoog | @cpast thank you for restating my point somewhat more coherently, and for the example, which illustrates it well. | |
| Aug 30, 2016 at 20:24 | comment | added | cpast | @Cicero phoog wasn't saying that they're open to the public. They were saying that the name "internal affairs" doesn't have much to do with them not being open to the public. The FBI has an Office of Professional Responsibility instead of an Internal Affairs Division, but the different name doesn't actually mean the OPR is any more transparent. | |
| Aug 30, 2016 at 20:20 | comment | added | Cicero | Go the NYPD Internal Affairs division and ask to see some of their case files. Let me know how that works out for you. | |
| Aug 30, 2016 at 20:04 | comment | added | phoog | The "internal" in internal affairs means that it is an office of the department that investigates the department -- that is, it conducts internal investigations. It doesn't mean that the office's activities are secret from the public. The fact that internal affairs investigations are often secret from the public, or at least very opaque, has to do with the fact that internal affairs offices are generally not independent, which has little to do with the choice of the word "internal" for the name. | |
| Aug 30, 2016 at 18:50 | history | answered | Cicero | CC BY-SA 3.0 |