Detroit police to VICE: It'll cost $77,000, take 12 years to fulfill your FOIA

[demmiblue]

Source: MLive

DETROIT, MI -- If you want records from Detroit police related to officer-involved shootings tracking back to 2010, it won't be easy to come by, VICE News learned during a recent investigation.

In fact, for police-involved shooting records from between 2010 and 2016, the Detroit Law Department, which processes requests for Detroit police, said it would take nearly 12 years and cost $77,000 to produce.

The "Detroit Police Department told VICE News it would take up to 3,120 business days and cost at least $77,532 to retrieve police shooting records that other departments made available online for free," VICE News said in a statement issued Monday, Dec. 11.

VICE News submitted open records requests for police-involved shooting data to the nation's 50 largest departments during its recent nine-month investigation into the topic.

Read more: http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2017/12/detroit_police_tell_vice_it_wo.html

[marble falls]

1. Classic stonewalling. What a PD does when its got something to hide.

[ProfessorGAC]

2. In The Digital Age. . .

. . .it would take 3120 business days to find data over 7 years time?

This is not just stonewalling, it's dumb stonewalling. It's an obvious lie.

[Scruffy1]

7. Even in non digital it wouldn't take very long to pull the files.

Every officer involved shooting has a file.

[UpInArms]

3. Were the reports chiseled into stones and dropped into a body of water?

This is utter bullshit

[christx30]

4. In the bottom of a locked filing cabinet

stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.

[irisblue]

5. See you in court. nt

[EX500rider]

6. "Just give me a minute there sonny....."

"....it's in one of these boxes...."