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e being "arrogant" (without a prior criminal record) by judge Choi of District Court recently. So if we are all so equal why is the police not at least punished like us other fallible people to set an example, as 1 advocated? And just to show how a murder by a police woman was foozled away you will read in Exhibit P how an illeoal Hawaii County Police Department Review Board was created by Chief Carvalho to get her off the hook. This concerns a public complaint in the Waltjen case to the police commission, that would be investigated but apparently never was. That "board" does not exist at all and can only be created by following Chapter 91 HRS the Hawaii Admin- strative Pocedure Act with public hearings and promulgating proper rules, and then can only be convened by strict adherence to Chapter 92 HRS, the Sunshine Law. But the police with its internal affairs division and this new review board shows how autocratic the police in this County really is without getting proper punishment for its transgressions, while we have a police commission that is fully in cahoots with the police and exchanges pleasantries with it in its meetings, listening to overly long recitations of police statistics that were published in the newspapers weeks ago, but not having more than 5 minutes for me as only one testifying on the serious matter of wasting public money to the tune of $150,000. Attached as Exhibit Q are 2 letters by Council member Aaron Chung of September 3. 1997 with an attached proposed bill for a Charter amendment (your recent Comm No. 478 & 478.01) They were addressed to Ms Sharon Scheele, Chair of the police commission, and Chief Carvalho, but were filed and came to nothing! In the draft bill Chung proposed that members of the police commission shall not engage in political support of candidates for any office during elections and that the standard of the police must be raised to the highest stan- dards, etc. Well Scheele is said to have been on Mayor Yamashiro's compaign staff and the standard for police recruits has over the years roughly been an eight grade education plus 4 years of something else like experience as a prison guard or the like. It must be said that the Chief has improved the recruiting requirements with lie-detector tests and psychological pro- filing, but what about the old roughnecks that still linger? (see exhibits D and N) Finally an illuminating article in the Hilo paper of 19 October 1997 about the situation in the county police department. It shows that there is still a shortage of police. But if that is so why are more than 50°~ of the arrests for bench warrants? (see daily newpaper statistics) In Honolulu this is work for the sheriff's department. All it seems the Chief here has to do, is refuse to deal with that issue and suddenly he will have more than enough police. The latter article is attached as Exhibit R. On 14 November we experienced the latest of the police commission's executive sessions, -read kangaroo court events I urge the County Council not to alve in to this stuuid idea of wills n111v orovldlna police with lea i ouneel If they really need counsel, they can pay for themselves, like anybody else in that predicament, they make more money than most or they can be protected by corporation counsel, or as a final resort be referred to SHOPO, but not defended at public expense, unless the court wants to appoint an attorney for them at $40 per hour, like other (only) poor people. We have lust heard a 'n from Mr Abdul in the police commisakm lees Exhibit KI that "they aro human heinous as we are" and they make mistakes Nlae ~ of us ff that is so then let's tr+s~ them like anybody else instead of aivMa special treatmerrt. unlike all us "itnosrfsct" people And as far as executive sessions are concerned the Council should tell the police commission to read and heed the Attorney General's opinions 86-9, 86-5, 86-19 and 75-11.