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~vestigate the matter· and report
back on the pos~ibility ·that the
. comment could iQflueiice officers
to use excessive force on the street.
Farrell was further angered when
·he received an informal letter from
the commission's then-president
Robert Talcott, sayiQg ~he commis-
. sion had received an adequate explanatioQ
from Gates and did not
plan further action. .
"He shined me on," Farrell recalled
last week. "It was a letter
that did not address·my concerns."
Farrell said he believes the n~wly
:appointed-commission :wdt be
more responsive to complaints and
.concerns. . . ·
· But Bakewell said that will not
happen unless it is given mor-e in-
. dependence. ·,
"I believe the whole issue of
complaints needs to be relegated to
an independent body," Bakewell
said. Ed Herrera of the Hispanic
.Advisory Committee to the -