Among the many documents released from a protective order surrounding the James Chasse case are a training division report, which finds the officers at fault for chasing and taking down Chasse, and a memo from North Precinct Commander Donna Henderson, which refutes this analysis and says the officers acted properly.
- Jamie Marquez
The training division report, filed in Fall 2007, focuses on the police bureau's Foot Pursuit Policy, which had last been updated in July 2006. It finds fault with Officer Chris Humphrey's decision to pursue Chasse, and then to knock him down.
Humphreys said he used a number of factors to decide to pursue Chasse, including the belief that he was urinating in public, that he might have an outstanding arrest warrant (though there was no evidence of this), that he possibly had illegal drugs, that he might have a weapon, and that he turned to the officers with "a look of sheer terror." The report's conclusion:
Although the belief that Mr. Chasse had urinated in public may be reason enough to contact him on the street, initiating the foot pursuit and deploying the knock-down technique... is in-consistent with the Training Division's Tactical Doctrine.
More after the jump.