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From: Jasper
Date: 10/21/03
Time: 9:32:30 PM
Remote Name: 68.73.204.63
Miss Marple,
Do you want to check those last two dates? Fuhrman left the LAPD in 1996.
The gaps in his record I referred to where in the May 1997 LAPD report on his entire career http://www.policenet.com/fuhrmanidx.html I was mistaken about Fuhrman going back to work in ’84. He officially returned to work in May 1983 but he went into a special “rehabilitation” and “evaluation” program called TARP and didn’t get assigned to full time patrol duty in West LA until mid December 1993. That’s why summaries of his return to work that you will find elsewhere begins with him as a West LA patrolman in ’84. The first black hole in the police report is what he did in the TARP program. The report says, “…many of the records for the period that Fuhrman was in TARP are no longer available.”
Contrary to what Fuhrman and Phillips said about Fuhrman’s detective work in ’87, it appears that he began that work in ’88 or ’89. He began detective training in December 1988. He got his promotion to Detective II in 1994 as the result of winning a grievance. Those records are not available by law.
The rest of the report mentions several serious incidents in which records wee not available or it leaves out important information. For instance, in 1986 Fuhrman’s partner shot a man who they said attempted to run over the partner with his car. The report does not say whether the man was wounded or killed and it does not give the partner’s name. The report mentions the ’87 incident where Fuhrman shot Joseph Britton five times. It gives Fuhrman’s version of what happened and it dose not give the names of the other three officers who where with him at the time. One of them had to be his partner.
In short, there is a lot of room in Fuhrman’s record to make him invisible. It is difficult to understand in some places, and like Fuhrman’s critique of the Spokane serial Task Force report, it seems to be “carefully” muddled in all the right places to hide as much as it reveals.
Was Fuhrman the golden boy Gates chose to replace Brambles? Judging by the records we have and the places where they are missing, it sure looks like it. –Jasper