Margaret Anne (she/her/they)Not just the #police - all gov't departments isuue these non-answers.
Reporters should stop accepting them, as proposed here.
Instead, listing "the questions they refused to answer". YES!
Hold their feet to the fire.
Likely behind a paywall today but they do come out from it eventually.
Time to call out the ‘provided a statement’ scam from public officials
When the CBC’s Atlantic Investigative Unit wanted to understand better how police handle complaints from the public for a project called “Police and Public Trust,” it filed freedom-of-information requests asking all provincial police forces for 11 years of internal discipline decisions. Every force complied, except one. Halifax Regional Police declined to release any information at […]