10/27/14 Chief Lanier Testifies Under Oath

Says police are trained to put drawers back when searching a home.

Says it's not police policy to make arrestees sit on curb.

And other fanciful ideas of perfect community policing.

 Chief Cathy Lanier takes an oath to tell the truth to the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety October 27^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

 Assistant Chief of Police Peter Newsham takes an oath to tell the truth to the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety October 27^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

 MPD Director of Strategic Change Kelly O’Meara, Assistant Chief of Police Peter Newsham and Chief Cathy Lanier sit at the witness table before a hearing on police accountability October 27^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

 Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety Chairman Tommy Wells holds a hearing on police accountability October 27^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

 Council Member David Grosso sits at a hearing of the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety October 27^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

 Chief Cathy Lanier confers with Kelly O’Meara, Director of MPD Office of Strategic Change, prior to the hearing about police accountability October 27^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

 Council Member David Grosso attends the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety October 27^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

 Police Chief Cathy Lanier testifies in a hearing about police accountability before the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety October 27^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

 Police Chief Cathy Lanier testifies in a hearing about police accountability at the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety October 27^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

 Committee Chairman Tommy Wells questions the police chief in a hearing about police accountability before the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety October 27^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

 Committee Chairman Tommy Wells wants truthful answers from the police chief in a hearing about police accountability before the Committee on the Judiciary and Public
 

 Police Chief Cathy Lanier listens from the witness table before the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety October 27^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

 Police Chief Cathy Lanier bites her lip at a hearing about police accountability before the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety October 27^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

 Police Chief Cathy Lanier smiles at a hearing about police accountability before the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety October 27^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

 Chief Cathy Lanier testifies before the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety October 27^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

 MPD Assistant Chief Peter Newsham shares the witness table with Chief Cathy Lanier at the hearing about police accountability before the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety October 27^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

 Chief Cathy Lanier keeps a watchful eye on Assistant Chief Peter Newsham, as he testifies at the hearing about police accountability before the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety October 27^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

 Stripes of MPD’s Assistant Chief Peter Newsham (left) and Chief Cathy Lanier are on the witness table during a hearing on police accountability before the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety October 27^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

 MPD Assistant Chief Peter Newsham faces forward while Chief Cathy Lanier testifies in a hearing about police accountability October 27^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

 (L-R)  Kelly O’Meara, director of MPD Strategic Change Division, Assistant Chief Peter Newsham and Chief Cathy Lanier face the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety in a hearing about police accountability October 27^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

 (L-R)  Kelly O’Meara, director of MPD Strategic Change Division, Assistant Chief Peter Newsham and Chief Cathy Lanier sit at the witness table in the hearing about police accountability before the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety October 27^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

 Shahid Buttar (left, rear), executive director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and Kymone Freeman of We Act Radio use electronic devices during the hearing  about police accountability before the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety October 27^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

 Dimitrius Christian Klossner, Acting Executive Director of the Office of Police Complaints, testifies at the hearing about police accountability before the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety October 27^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

 Dimitrius Pitt, public witness and Jody Westby, a lawyer who videotaped police profiling, testify at the hearing on police accountability October 27^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

(L-R) Rick Rosendall, president of GLAA, Michael Fiorillo, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, Dimitrius Pitt, public witness and Jody Westby, a lawyer, testify before the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety October 27^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia