Mayor calls beef between association and brass a “hot mess”
A longtime Dallas PD employee says he and other workers were “bullied” and “intimidated” by internal affairs investigators looking into allegations of wrongdoing at the training academy. A retired officer who was the civilian coordinator at the academy, said he believes he was transferred to the city’s auto pound as retaliation for not answering questions a certain way. The grievance is the latest accusation in a battle between the Dallas Police Association and top police commanders. The fight, which Chief David Brown recently called a “hot mess,” became public after the association’s president, Ron Pinkston, wrote a letter to state auditors claiming one recruit was repeatedly allowed to take a driving test until he passed.