Missoula Cops Are Actually Getting Their Shit Together
LatestSome news from Missoula: awful Police Chief (of denial) Mark Muir is handing over his daily responsibilities so he can focus on the city’s response to the U.S. Department of Justice’s investigation into the department’s gender bias. Although Muir still refuses to admit that the department was ever shitty at handling rape reports, he’ll admit that police have seen “an enormous increase” in the number of sexual assault reports in the 10 weeks since the federal investigation concluded than all of last year and the year before. What a coincidence!
As we’ve reported, the cops agreed to make changes to improve their response to sexual assault reports as part of an agreement between the DOJ and the city of Missoula. Muir has been whining for months about how the investigation was so damaging to Missoulians — he recently told the New York Times that Missoula wasn’t “one of the worst of the worst” so it was unfair that the department had to “pay a huge price in terms of their reputation and their effectiveness in the community.” But according to the Missoulian, reporting has gone up significantly thanks to the DOJ: