Mayor Sheng Thao, pressured by the court monitor, terminated Chief LeRonne Armstrong using internally inconsistent and thin findings.
of the confidential review of the Police Department’s handling of the elevator discharge incident.
The outside reports’ scapegoating of Armstrong is further evidence that the federal oversight of the city’s Police Department has lost its way. Warshaw forced out a qualified chief who was trying to make reforms and confront the city’s soaring homicide and crime rates. William Orrick is now the judge in charge of the case, and he has given Warshaw sweeping power as the monitor and compliance director, a job for which the city must pay his firm’s bills that last year totaled $755,000.
Meanwhile, a careful review of the two confidential reports reveals how poorly supported their findings about Armstrong are.In each case, the reports contain summaries of the outside law firm’s interviews with police personnel who were witnesses or subjects of the investigations. But the conclusions about Armstrong in the two reviews often do not match the testimony summarized in the same reports.
It was those revised findings that were, in a weekly meeting of top commanders in December 2021, presented to Armstrong to make the final calls on wrongdoing and later punishment. The outside law firm concludes that Armstrong knew the true facts of the case before the meeting but was dishonest when questioned later about his past knowledge.
The chief freely admitted he knew before the meeting about the existence of the investigation. But there was good reason for him to remain out of the loop on the details — so that he could have an open mind when he reviewed the case presented to him for a ruling on discipline of Chung. It’s that walling off that is a key issue driving the conclusion in the outside review that Armstrong was not credible in his testimony about the case. Armstrong said he respected the walling off; the outside attorneys say he did not.
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