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A happy Bakersfield Police Chief Bill Rector announced that his department has been cleared of any wrongdoing or constitutional issues in a 4 and 1/2 year probe by the U.S. Department of Justice. The probe began with questions of excessive force and racial profiling. Throughout the whole process, no specific examples were cited. That caused  Rector and District Attorney Ed Jagels to question why the probe was started in the first place. Jagels had this to say: "The criticisms were hyper-technical and the scrutiny began because of a barrage of complaints deliberately and unfairly given by the criminal defense bar. I am pleased the review has ended but annoyed it began in the first place." Rector said the department fully cooperated with the probe and did change some of its policies, such as prohibiting shooting at moving cars, discouraging the use of Pepper Spray at close range, adding Internal Affairs to officer shooting investigations, creating a use-of force...
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