–“The Michigan State Police, reeling from a 2023 exam-rigging scandal at the Flint post that ended five careers, is in turmoil amid controversial promotions, a wave of departures, and the director’s response to a fatal chase.
The names and faces are new, but much of the upheaval is not. The upper levels of the state police have been rocked for years by lawsuits, feuds, and resentments as the agency historically dominated by white males has sought to diversify, records show. One white lieutenant was so disgruntled after being passed over for promotion by a Black woman that his supervisor consulted a psychologist to get a sense of whether he might harm himself or others, according to sworn testimony in previous lawsuits.”
–Michigan State Police face suspicion for handling of cold case murder as covered in the podcast Where Secrets Go To Die, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/where-secrets-go-to-die/id1737825176 .
My family and I have been talking, writing, litigating and attempting to litigate about/over the complicity of MSP polygraphers, those in the FOIA division who illegally redact and withhold documents, the actions and inaction by the state lab (past and present), as well as the gas-lighting MSP detectives and higher-ups who dealt with my dad and my family post-2005. It may be in their “culture” not to “deal with” families of victims, but it is apparently part of their culture to facilitate the crimes committed by Oakland County prosecutors in 1977. Their failures in the OCCK case at every possible turn have been compounded over the decades by the unrelenting need to keep a lid on this case.
As much as Colonel Grady wishes to focus on what needs to be done in the future because he doesn’t have time “to keep worrying about what happened in the past,” it is clear that all of the self-inflicted difficulties outlined by the Detroit Free Press in this article and the podcast are a direct result of a twisted agency culture.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. The MSP is not immune from this maxim.
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