Cop review board's silence is jeopardizing its credibiity

Editorial

Despite a mad scramble and weeks of publicity regarding replacing the Office of Professional Standards with the Internal Police Review Authority and bringing in an executive director from Los Angeles, one can't help but wonder if anything has changed when it comes to police shooting civilians in the city.

Earlier this week a 16-year-old Phillips High School student was stopped at the school and allegedly found to have a gun. After he ran from the school, the youngster was shot by an off-duty cop.

The story gets murkier from here - particularly because ifs the job of Bayna Rosenzweig, chief administrator of the D?RA, to apprise citizens and the media of the …