Dallas Police Internal Affairs Abuses Power By Sabotaging New Recruits, Intimidating Veteran Officer

DALLAS -- A Dallas police manager is alleging that an internal affairs supervisor attempted to bully and manipulate his answers in an investigation of the department’s training academy.

Gene Hagen filed the grievance last month. He alleges that he was transferred to the auto pound after he refused to bow to pressure. He is retiring this month after 34 years in the department, including 17 years as an officer.
“Gene Hagen’s grievance raises some serious questions about the propriety of the DPD internal investigation of Dallas Police Academy training programs,” his attorney, Bob Gorsky, said in a statement. “Bullying and manipulating officers and civilians into providing manufactured statements that fit with what the command staff may be looking for falls far short of the integrity expected from an internal investigation.”
Hagen had been called to internal affairs to give a statement in an investigation of the department’s pursuit vehicle operations training program. The department is investigating allegations that a recruit’s score was “reduced improperly” and “intentionally altered,” so he failed.
The recruit was the same one that DPA officials had alleged the department was "attempting to circumvent" its own rules by letting the recruit keep taking the test until he passed.

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