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City Finalizing Deal With Consultant To Help Select The Next Honolulu Police Chief Honolulu Police Commission/2021

City Finalizing Deal With Consultant To Help Select The Next Honolulu Police Chief

PSI Services LLC has been awarded a $145,777.50 contract to the relief of police commissioners who believed the process was taking too long.
The Search For The Next Honolulu Police Chief Is Still Bogged Down Jacob Geanous/Civil Beat/2021

The Search For The Next Honolulu Police Chief Is Still Bogged Down

The Honolulu Police Commission has gone weeks without providing any significant developments in the search for the department's next chief. Commissioners are starting to question what is taking so long.
The Prosecution Of Police Misconduct Cases Essentially Stopped During The Pandemic Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2021

The Prosecution Of Police Misconduct Cases Essentially Stopped During The Pandemic

More than 500 complaints were made against HPD employees last year, leading to recommendations for dozens of firings and suspensions.  
How Police Overtime Leaves Taxpayers On The Hook For Jacked Up Pensions Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2021

How Police Overtime Leaves Taxpayers On The Hook For Jacked Up Pensions

State lawmakers cracked down on pension spiking in 2012 – but only for new employees. The old-timers continue to stick taxpayers with ever-growing bills from the state pension system. 
Shooting Review Board Says Officers Were Justified In Killing Honolulu Man After Chase Screenshot/2021

Shooting Review Board Says Officers Were Justified In Killing Honolulu Man After Chase

The Hawaii Law Enforcement Officer Independent Review Board recommended against prosecuting the officers involved in the death of Dustin Spencer.
HPD: Threatening Drawing Of A Gun And Severed Head Led To 10-Year-Old’s Arrest Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2021

HPD: Threatening Drawing Of A Gun And Severed Head Led To 10-Year-Old’s Arrest

The Honolulu Police Department is painting a different picture of the reasons officers arrested the girl at her elementary school.
Honolulu Police Commissioner Is Stepping Down To Allow More Diversity Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Honolulu Police Commissioner Is Stepping Down To Allow More Diversity

Former judge Michael Broderick has been on the commission about 15 months.
Honolulu Man Mistakenly Locked Up In State Mental Hospital Had Been Correctly ID’d By Police Before Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2019

Honolulu Man Mistakenly Locked Up In State Mental Hospital Had Been Correctly ID’d By Police Before

Newly obtained police reports reveal new details about the institutional failures that landed Joshua Spriestersbach in the Hawaii State Hospital for more than two years.
Protection For A Price: Waikiki Businesses Pay Extra For Police Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2020

Protection For A Price: Waikiki Businesses Pay Extra For Police

The Waikiki business association has paid Honolulu police at least $2 million in the past 15 years for additional services. Critics say that's not fair to other areas.
Police Officer Falsely Accused Former State Senator Of Being At Massage Parlor Raid Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2021

Police Officer Falsely Accused Former State Senator Of Being At Massage Parlor Raid

Officer Chester Desiderio was the subject of an undisclosed administrative action for Facebook comments he made about former Sen. Will Espero.