Mesa PD: Excessive Use-Of-Force Tactics-And-Training Under Scrutiny >Tracking-The Data

At the same time that a new report by a team of three reporters working for The Arizona Republic gets published two days ago, your MesaZona blogger just happens to have been reading a book by Special Operations Police Force-Trainer  and  Private Military Contractor (PMC) Eric Prince that was printed in 2014 - "Civilian Warriors".
While this new local report by the team of reporters is welcome, it barely scratches the under-belly of the beast:
both the out-sourcing of police training and the hiring of former military and private paramilitary special ops personnel
to protect-and-serve the public - Case in point not cited at all: 
The Killing of Daniel Shaver by a Mesa PD Officer.
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Blogger Note: This brutal killing happened on January 18, 2016 more than two years ago. It has somehow managed to be "under-the-radar" now while Shaver's widow and his family have lodged in a civil case against the City of Mesa for potential liability claims amounting to $75-$130,000,000 depending on what the yet-unsettled outcome could be.
QUESTION: A Culture of Cover-Up here in Mesa behind a Blue Wall? 
See this from not a local reporting source, The American Civil Liberties Union

'You're Fucked': The Acquittal of Officer Brailsford and the Crisis of ...

https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal.../youre-fucked-acquittal-officer-brailsford-and

 

Dec 12, 2017 - Two words stick in my mind when I think of the video of Daniel Shaver begging for his life before he was shot and killed by Officer Philip Brailsford of the Police Department in Mesa, Arizona. The two words were written on the dust cover of the AR-15 rifle Braisford used to kill ...

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Mesa officers rarely disciplined in excessive-force investigations, police data show

Uriel J. Garcia,Lily Altavena and Agnel Philip,

Arizona Republic Published 6:00 a.m. MT Nov. 13, 2018

An analysis by The Arizona Republic finds it is rare for Mesa officers to face any discipline in excessive-force investigations. 

Mesa has shelled out more than $1 million to settle legal claims that officers used excessive force in the past four years, but only 2% of 158 internal-affairs investigations into such allegations were substantiated since 2014.

The team of investigative reporters also  analyzed similar data for five other metro Phoenix police departments and found substantiated findings of officers using excessive force is rare. When it did occur, discipline ranged from written reprimands to suspensions, although Tempe police fired one of its officers after an excessive-force investigation in 2017.

Valley police departments?

Source: Internal investigations data (2014 to present) and AZPOSTGraphic by Agnel Philip

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Police departments track excessive force investigations, but the data is not reported to an outside agency. The data should be publicly available with a public records request after the investigation is completed.

Please take the time to read the new investigative reporting by Urial J. Garcia, Lily Altavena and Agnel Philip >

Mesa PD Excessive Use-of-Force Data Reporting