Patrick Rose police internal affairs files won’t be released this week

The internal affairs files for disgraced former cop union boss Patrick Rose won’t end up coming this week, as Acting Mayor Kim Janey originally said, the mayor’s office announced Friday night.

Former Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association President Rose, 66, was indicted last year on multiple counts of child rape. Janey on Tuesday vowed to release personnel files from his decades on the force by the end of the week, but that didn’t end up happening.

“We’re dealing with very sensitive information related to a victim of sexual violence, and a review of the documents took longer than expected,” spokesman Nick Martin said Friday evening. The city’s legal department has been working on redacting parts of the files to keep the identities of his accusers private, and is expected to release the documents next week.

He was arraigned last August on charges of child rape — and then more people came forward saying he’d sexually assaulted them, too, dating back in some cases to the 1990s. In total, Rose is behind bars on 33 counts stemming from allegations from six people. He has pleaded not guilty to all of these counts, and the cases continue to move forward as he remains locked up on bail.

The Herald reported later in August that prosecutors had an email Rose wrote to his family Aug. 2, 2020, before the news of his charges broke — a note in which the 66-year-old former cop called himself a “monster” and saying he was “mentally all effed up.” His family, the defense attorney said at the time, was not cooperating with him, so he’d been cut off from the money he’d need to post bail.

Janey’s order to release the files came after The Boston Globe reported last weekend that the department launched an internal-affairs probe of Rose in the mid-’90s and found that he’d likely committed wrongdoing — but then didn’t fire him.

Rose would eventually unseat the longtime immensely powerful union boss Tommy Nee in 2014 on the strength of a pitch for new leadership. Rose’s tenure was short and he retired from the force in 2018.

City Councilor Andrea Campbell, who’s running for mayor against Janey and who filed a records request this week for documents relating to Rose, put out a statement that said, “It’s deeply disappointing that the administration failed to meet its own deadline to release these records. After a week of national trauma, people are looking to leaders for transparency and commitments they can trust when it comes to our police department. I sincerely hope we see a full release of these records on Tuesday.”

from Boston Herald https://ift.tt/3akjzOv