WHY HIRE AN INDEPENDENT FIRM TO DO AN INTERNAL AFFAIRS INVESTIGATION?
We are taking this unusual step of handing over our internal affairs investigation to an independent third party to assure ourselves and the public of the absolute objectivity of this investigation. It is imperative that BART determine whether the actions of the officers on the platform violated any policy or procedures of the BART Police Department or state or federal law. While we have every confidence in the capabilities of our BART Police Department’s Internal Affairs office to investigate its own officers, we believe that handing off this investigation to an independent third party will assure the public that we take this investigation extremely seriously and the findings and recommendations that Meyers Nave presents will be credible. We believe we need to rebuild trust with the public and one way to do that is to ask a third party to have a reputable independent firm conduct the investigation.
