Aurora Sentinel: In what has become a dangerously bad habit, Aurora is searching for another chief of police.

It’s dangerous because the city’s large and deeply troubled police department has been devastated by sustained crime, rogue and self-serving union leaders, a worrisome number of malevolent or incompetent officers and a perilous lack of transparency and accountability.

The killing, maiming and abuse of Black people, the drunken passed-out cops in squad cars, rehired racists and pistol-whipping episodes eventually drew a state investigation. That resulted in a consent decree among Aurora, its police department and the Colorado attorney general’s office. The decree mandates that a third-party expert monitor Aurora’s well-documented problems that reach back more than a decade. “Third-party” however is not independent of the complex problem, despite being tabbed “independent monitor.”

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