Rochester, N.Y. --- City Councilman Adam McFadden has followed the reports included in this 13WHAM News investigation and you can too by clicking on the following reports:
Judge’s Order Accuses RPD Officer Of Lying
Top County Official Was Concerned About RPD Officers In 2011
Locust Club Union Defends Officers Being Scrutinized
McFadden is the Chairman of City Council’s Public Safety Committee and said Wednesday, “I’m going to challenge the Mayor and the Chief to be forthcoming about what it is that they find and what they're going to do differently and that they communicate directly with the public. We can't keep sweeping things under the rug and we have a habit of doing that and at some point the lint's going to pile up and all the dirt's going to spill out.”
McFadden noted, as did 13WHAM News, that in each case a quantity of drugs, cash, and in one case a firearm were recovered and the community should be reminded that drugs and guns are still problems in this community. Yet both cases resulted in no jail time each defendant.
"The way I react to that is what are we doing on our side to make sure that we're following the rules?” McFadden asked. “I think no matter what criminal activity is going on we have rules that we have to follow and we have to make sure that we do that and are we (council and community) putting the types of pressure on our department that allows them or forces them to cut corners which we should not be doing ?”
On the community’s likely response to these reports:
"The community's response probably would be that we already have a strained relationship and we hold elected officials to a higher standard and we also hold police officers to a higher standard and if we're going to improve that relationship we have to make sure that we're always held to that higher standard and following the rules.”
On the 2011 email from Monroe County Public Defendant Tim Donaher to the City’s Law Department regarding Officer’s Hartley and Osipovitch:
