The Denver Post: Leadership of Denver’s police union would have been wise to bite their tongues and wait for an internal investigation to be completed into the behavior of Chief Robert White and Deputy Chief Matt Murray rather than to call for a judge to hold a special hearing on the matter.

We join the union’s concerns about how White and Murray handled a public records request, particularly the question of whether the two intentionally deceived the public by pretending that they didn’t have a letter from the district attorney’s office that was highly critical of Murray’s handling of a case.

If the two conspired to cover up the letter and the fact that no official inquiry into the letter’s complaint was ever opened, then it would have serious ramifications for top command at the Denver Police Department.

But it also seems pretty clear to us that District Attorney Beth McCann would have made a mistake to bring what many people say would have been the first ever criminal charges against someone for violating the Colorado Open Records Act.

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