Sheriff's Department investigations flawed

About half of the Sheriff's Department's internal investigations into officer-involved shootings and other uses of force in 2004 and 2005 were not conducted thoroughly and some were seriously flawed, according to a report released Wednesday. Troy Anderson in the Daily News.

In the report, Special Counsel Merrick Bobb raised questions about a number of investigations done by the Internal Affairs Bureau, including cases involving sheriff's deputies who shot suspects through their windshields and used flashlights to strike suspects.

In eight of 16 officer-involved shootings in 2004 and 2005, Bobb raised concerns that investigators didn't interview deputies involved in shootings and instead relied on Homicide Bureau reports in determining whether policies were violated.