Why won't newspaper release police report?
I am writing in response to the rather sanctimonious editorial, "Exercise in incredulity" (April 21). The writer rushes headlong to the defense of the newspaper's source of the leaked RMA report on the local police department.
The contorted excuses for Councilwoman Bellamy-Small's suspicious stance were not unexpected. Nor was the news of the EEOC complaints filed by black police officers. All of it seems predictable and planned.
The editorial characterizes the report as "about underhanded activities in the Police Department during the administration of former Chief David Wray." Neither Wray nor his attorney has been able to examine the report, thus it is impossible to rebut. The editorial calls upon the city to release the report.
Well, here's an idea: Since the editorial page calls for the release of the report, and since it rests in the hands of the editors, I recommend that the newspaper simply publish it so that readers, including the GPD employees, can scrutinize it for fairness, accuracy, objectivity and underlying motivations, perhaps some of which were not all that honorable or noble. Are you willing to do what you cravenly ask others to do?
Fred H. Gregory
Greensboro