Office of Professional Standards

OPS files.

In 2013, LEMAP told the City to buy IAPro and stand up a real internal-affairs system. The City bought the software. Chief Beazizo turned it into a surgical cleanup tool — editing, downgrading, and rejecting the very complaints it was meant to preserve. This section lays out what IAPro actually recorded: the tamper-evident audit log, the WASPC and Mayor's-office certifications that denied the files existed, and the Administrative Review Reports themselves.

Part 1 · Internal-affairs forensics

IAPro audit log

LSPD's IAPro database keeps a tamper-evident audit log of every change to every OPS file. Pulled under public records request, that log records 773 substantive changes across 55 OPS files between 2017 and 2025 — overwhelmingly performed by Chief Jeffrey G. Beazizo.

773
Substantive changes
55
OPS files affected
206
Rejections, deletions & alterations
2017–25
Years covered

Three pre-submission "cleanup sessions"

The IAPro log shows three concentrated bursts of editing activity, each falling within days of an external accreditation submission or annual report to the Mayor.

AllegationJan 14–16, 2020

Cleanup Session 1 — pre-annual-report

Bias-Based Policing classifications removed from multiple files; the Rutherford finding downgraded from Sustained to Coaching; Officer Thomas (OPS 2018-0032) re-training backdated. Six days before LSPD's annual report.

AllegationApr 22, 2020 — morning

Cleanup Session 2 — pre-WASPC accreditation

At 8:58 AM, on the morning of LSPD's first WASPC accreditation submission, Marshall OPS 2019-0011 allegations were added and rejected. Five files were manipulated before the submission left the building. The submission then certified to WASPC that there had been zero racial or bias-based investigations in 2018–2019.

AllegationJan 3–26, 2024

Cleanup Session 3 — pre-three-year OPS review

Four OPS files altered in the weeks before the February 6, 2024 OPS Three-Year Review was emailed to Mayor Brett Gailey and City Administrator Gene Brazel. That report again denied any racial investigations had taken place — while listing OPS 2021-0017 (Bloom) as the lone 'complaint rejected.'

AllegationJun 15, 2021 · 13:02–13:05

Seven officers cleared in three minutes

Audit entries show Beazizo entering Unfounded findings on all seven officers across a children's-abuse-video review file within a three-minute window — 13:02 to 13:05.

Categories of change

CategoryCount
Disposition changes (set / changed)58
Allegations added / deleted39
Finding changes60
Classification changes (incl. Bias-Based Policing)8
Incident type downgrades (External → Administrative)2
Part 2 · Accreditation record

WASPC accreditation fraud

The Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs granted LSPD its first accreditation in May 2020 on the strength of a submission certified by Chief Beazizo. That submission, and the 2024 OPS three-year review that followed, contain identical sworn statements that LSPD had no racial or bias-based investigations during periods in which the IAPro log shows multiple.

Denial #1 — WASPC, April 22, 2020

"In 2018 and 2019, there were no reports or investigations conducted in regard to minority or racially based incidents or unlawful harassment."
WASPC accreditation submission · April 22, 2020

The same submission, four pages earlier, lists OPS 2019-0015 (Hildebrant / Wells, race comments about a mixed-race child) in its Administrative Reviews section. The IAPro log shows that in the week before this submission, Beazizo had removed Bias-Based Policing classifications from OPS 2018-0012, 2018-0017 and 2019-0021 — classifications he had personally added.

WASPC certified this submission under Standards 4.3, 13.3, 14.1 and 14.2 — the exact standards governing internal investigations, bias-based policing, and complaint documentation.

Denial #2 — OPS Three-Year Review, February 6, 2024

"From 2021 to 2023, there were no reports or investigations conducted in regard to minority or racially based incidents or unlawful harassment."
LSPD OPS Three-Year Overview · signed by Chief Beazizo · emailed Feb. 6, 2024 to Mayor Brett Gailey & City Administrator Gene Brazel

The same report identifies a single "complaint rejected" for the period — OPS 2021-0017, Bloom — an immigrant woman whose complaint explicitly raised bias. The report had been preceded, three weeks earlier, by Cleanup Session 3 in the IAPro log.

Seven racial / bias complaints denied

AllegationOPS 2018-0017

Elijah Slade — Black man

False arrest, handcuff injury, racial slurs by Cpl. Fiske. Bias-Based Policing tag added Dec 4, 2019, removed Jan 15, 2020. Courtesy/Disrespect allegation deleted. Denied in WASPC 2020.

AllegationOPS 2019-0015

Gregory Ward — mixed-race child

Cpl. Wells's racial comments about a mixed-race child's hair. Barnes 'resolved' by phone. Listed in WASPC submission while WASPC submission denied any race investigations existed.

AllegationOPS 2019-0021

Hispanic / Latina complainant

Bias-Based Policing tag added Dec 13, 2019; removed Jan 16, 2020 — days before WASPC accreditation. Denied in WASPC 2020.

AllegationOPS 2019-0031

Hymes / Irwin — off-duty profiling

Bias-Based Policing tag added Dec 13, 2019; de-classified Jan 16, 2020. Denied in WASPC 2020.

AllegationOPS 2020-0027

Erika Johnson / Julie Family — Latina DV victims

Downgraded from External Complaint to Administrative Review. Allegations against Wells, Marshall and Warbis deleted; officers reclassified as witnesses. Closed Unfounded.

AllegationOPS 2021-0017

Bloom — immigrant woman

Closed Unfounded Jun 15, 2021; retroactively changed to Complaint Rejected Apr 21, 2022. Cited as the lone 'complaint rejected' in the 2024 OPS review that denied any racial investigations.

AllegationOPS 2022-0032

Romeo Asuncion — Hispanic teenager

Tosha Edwards's email to Beazizo explicitly used 'POC,' 'brown skinned,' 'racist vigilantes,' and requested implicit-bias training. Mayor Gailey copied. Closed Unfounded Feb 1, 2023. Denied in OPS Review 2024.

Part 3 · The files themselves

Individual OPS files

Each card below is a full Administrative Review Report released by LSPD under the Public Records Act — the underlying records covered by the IAPro audit and denied in the WASPC certifications above.

14
OPS files published
7
Racial / bias allegations
9
DV failure-to-investigate
14
Closed without sustained discipline
OPS 2018-0017· May 2, 2018Racial profilingBIAS

Elijah Slade

Black male, age 32 at the time of arrest

Complainant alleged Corporal Fiske called him a "bitch" and "fuck" during transport, applied handcuffs so tightly he was injured, and arrested him on charges the judge ultimately would not file.

Officer(s): Corporal Brandon Fiske · Corporal Alex Michael (backup)
Disposition: Unfounded — Complaint Rejected (May 22, 2018)
OPS 2018-0036· December 6, 2018DV failure-to-investigate

Jamie Renée Schultz

Domestic violence victim, husband was the assailant

Schultz, a domestic-violence victim, walked into LSPD asking why her husband's case had stalled. She alleged Sgt. Miner treated her "like scum" and falsely told the Mayor she had declined to press charges.

Officer(s): Sergeant Robert Miner
Disposition: Unfounded (Dec 12, 2018) — closed because complainant did not send promised video
OPS 2019-0015· July 9, 2019Racial profilingDV failure-to-investigate

Diane Hildebrant (on behalf of her 15-year-old son Gregory Ward)

Gregory Ward — biracial (½ Black / ½ white) minor, assault victim

An LSPD officer responded to an assault complaint. The victim's mother alleged the officer made judgmental, racially loaded comments about her biracial son's "large, poofy" hair and clothing, threatened the 15-year-old with jail, and let the suspect overhear the entire interview.

Officer(s): Corporal Chad Wells
Disposition: Complaint Rejected (July 11, 2019)
OPS 2019-0031· November 14, 2019BIAS

Roy Hymes

An off-duty LSPD officer driving his personal Honda Pilot blocked a man riding a BMX bike to work at 5 a.m. in Arlington, demanded to know where he lived, and identified himself as a police officer.

Officer(s): Officer Dennis Irwin — Marine / SRO unit, off-duty
Disposition: Coaching (Nov 18, 2019)
OPS 2020-0006· February 23–24, 2020Racial profiling

Hasanex Mendez Figueroa

Hispanic male, age 24

Hispanic motorist on his way home from a graveyard shift was pulled over by the same officer on two consecutive nights, once for a license-plate cover and once for unverified "speeding." Complainant said he never received a radar signal on his detector and felt he was being targeted.

Officer(s): Officer Douglas Jewell
Disposition: No Complaint — Info Only (May 6, 2020)
OPS 2020-0015· May 11, 2020DV failure-to-investigate

Cecily M. Johnson & Nicholas E. Johnson

Homeowner DVPO petitioner and his mother

On the same day a Snohomish County judge issued Nicholas Johnson a DVPO against his tenant Brandon Kiner, LSPD officers told Johnson at his own front door that Kiner "had every right to live here and you have to let him in the house," then walked Kiner inside.

Officer(s): Officer Chris Lyons · Sergeant Dean Thomas · Records Specialist Megan LeBlanc
Disposition: Not within policy — Verbal Coaching only for both Officer Lyons and Sgt. Thomas (June 25 / July 1, 2020); Records Specialist coached (July 9, 2020)
OPS 2020-0024· April 17, 2017 (incident); July 27, 2020 (complaint)Sexual assaultDV failure-to-investigate

Anonymous child survivor of sexual assault (age 16 at time of report)

Three years after she reported a sexual assault, the survivor wrote LSPD an online form describing what the detective had said to her: "He told me I wanted it… he told me it sounds like you just felt guilty for cheating on your boyfriend… he told me I wasn't raped."

Officer(s): Sergeant Robert Miner
Disposition: Unfounded (Aug 19, 2020)
OPS 2020-0026· August 11, 2020DV failure-to-investigateSexual assault

Donna Lemmon

Grandmother / DV victim, reporting sexual abuse of grandchildren

Lemmon called 911 after being pushed into a porch rail and choked by her daughter-in-law. While officers were on scene she also reported that her 10-year-old autistic grandson was being sexually abusive toward her 3-year-old grandson. Officer Kilroy repeatedly told her LSPD "didn't deal with that" and instructed her to "call CPS" — at least three times.

Officer(s): Officer Joshua Kilroy · Officer Richard Rutherford (witness)
Disposition: Unfounded — both allegations (Nov 3, 2020)
OPS 2020-0027· August 16, 2020DV failure-to-investigateRacial profiling

Julie Family (aunt) on behalf of niece Erika Johnson

Erika Johnson — Latina DV victim

Julie Family, listening over the phone from San Diego to her Latina niece Erika Johnson's DV call in Lake Stevens, heard one of the responding LSPD officers laughing at her niece in the background.

Officer(s): Officer Joshua Kilroy · Officer Richard Rutherford
Disposition: Within policy; Coaching (Aug 23, 2020)
OPS 2020-0031· September 2, 2020 (occurrence)DV failure-to-investigate

Rebbecca Johnson

DV victim, holder of a protection order

Anderson failed to take, investigate, or write a report on a Domestic Violence Protection Order violation. Sgt. Summers failed to supervise the case to completion. Chief Beazizo's own running sheet notes "lack of in person communications" and that "Employee failed to investigate and submit a report as required by policy."

Officer(s): Officer Alan Anderson · Sergeant Bob Summers
Disposition: Not within policy for BOTH Officer Anderson AND Sgt. Summers — Counseling + Performance Improvement Plan (Oct 7, 2020)
OPS 2021-0010· April 17, 2021DV failure-to-investigate

Diane (Diana) McCorkel

DV victim — arrested, not the assailant

DV victim alleged the arresting officer's report contained "inconsistencies and outright falsehoods," that Bryant had lied to her about the city prosecutor and court system, and that when she asked Sgt. Barnes to look into it Bryant "refuted all my statements" and she was treated "like I had made the whole thing up."

Officer(s): Corporal Adam Bryant · Sergeant Bob Summers (supervisor)
Disposition: No Complaint — Info Only (June 2, 2021) — closed because complainant did not return a written statement
OPS 2021-0028· September 24, 2021DV failure-to-investigate

Tania Lorraine Angel

DV victim, petitioner on protection order WA 21-2-04392-31

Officers failed to use proper procedure when serving a domestic-violence protection order; complainant later alleged excessive force.

Officer(s): Officer Alan Anderson · Officer Alexis (Lexi) Warbis
Disposition: Closed twice — first as "no further information — closing as no complaint - info only," then reopened after the complainant did submit a statement alleging excessive force, then closed again.
OPS 2022-0032· October 9, 2022Racial profilingBIAS

Tosha Renée Edwards

Mother of Romeo Asuncion (Hispanic, age 16) — assault victim

Mother of a Hispanic 16-year-old assault victim alleged Corporal Schedler was unprofessional, mocked the boy's grammar and made racially loaded comments about the assault being understandable because the victim "looked suspicious."

Officer(s): Corporal Chris Schedler
Disposition: Within policy / Unfounded (Feb 1, 2023)
OPS 2023-0006· January 6, 2023BIAS

Tosha Renée Edwards

Deputy Chief Young was alleged to have been intimidating, unprofessional and rude during the follow-up meeting on Edwards's earlier complaint about Cpl. Schedler (OPS 2022-0032).

Officer(s): Deputy Chief Jeff Young · Commander Dean Thomas (witness)
Disposition: Completed — Supervisor Intervention (Feb 14, 2023). Informal Verbal Coaching only.
Part 4 · Pattern and practice

Monell pattern

Eighteen OPS files reviewed, every one approved by Chief Beazizo, establish a two-track accountability system: meaningful discipline for a male property-crime victim, protective whitewashing for every domestic-violence victim, every complainant of color, and every internal officer who raised an issue.

The 2013 LEMAP notice

An independent Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Plan (LEMAP) assessment commissioned in 2013 — years before Plaintiff's first complaint — gave the City direct, written notice that LSPD's internal-investigations system was already broken.

"Policing the police is the platform from which public trust rests. Unfortunately, LSPD has not operated under an Internal Investigations process that has any linkage to current best practices in law enforcement … the current internal investigations process has been harmful to the agency and there is a prevailing lack of accountability within the department."
LEMAP Assessment, 2013

The 2013 LEMAP team noted that the Chief of Police was personally conducting every internal investigation. The City declined to implement LEMAP's recommendations. Every IAPro manipulation documented from 2017 onward occurred against that documented notice.

The two-track system

Track A — accountability
OPS 2018-0034 · Jay Nordquist

Male burglary victim complained of a dismissive email. Formal Coaching / Re-training finding entered, four hours of PoliceOne communications training assigned and formally documented. The only non-DV, non-race complaint in the eighteen-file set — and the only one that received meaningful discipline.

Track B — protection
Every DV and race complainant

Findings of Unfounded, Within Policy, Complaint Rejected, or No Complaint Filed. Civil rights and standards-of-conduct allegations deleted in IAPro. Bias-Based Policing classifications added and then quietly removed before accreditation submissions.

Selected pattern files

AllegationOPS 2018-0036 · Dec 6, 2018

Sgt. Miner — Jamie Schultz DV case

DV victim complained Miner was rude; Brooks confirmed the substantive issue: medical records from her husband's DV case were never forwarded to the prosecutor. Miner cleared. Same Miner who in 2022 received Bloom's Swedish Medical Center record and never forwarded it.

AllegationOPS 2019-0015 · Jul 11, 2019

Cpl. Wells — racially charged comments

Wells made racial comments about a mixed-race child's hair to assault victim Diane Hildebrandt. Barnes 'resolved' the complaint by phone; rejected. One year later Wells dismissed the Erika Johnson race complaint as 'reprehensible.'

AllegationOPS 2020-0027 · Aug 2020

Julie Family / Erika Johnson — five officers

Latina DV complainant. Downgraded from External Complaint to Administrative Review. Courtesy/Disrespect allegations against Wells, Marshall and Warbis deleted; all three reclassified from involved officers to witnesses. Complainant's citizen data edited four times in November.

AllegationOPS 2021-0017 · 2021

Bloom — immigrant woman, DV victim

Closed Unfounded June 15, 2021. Retroactively reclassified to Complaint Rejected on April 21, 2022 — and surfaced in the February 2024 OPS Review as the lone 'complaint rejected' for the period, while the same report denied any racial investigations existed.

AllegationOPS 2022-0017 · 2022

Bloom — Marshall PC complaint

Deputy Chief Young entered a Re-training finding for Marshall on June 7, 2022 at 4:46 PM. Beazizo deleted it sixteen minutes later and substituted Complaint Rejected. The next morning he re-opened the file, briefly re-added Re-training for two minutes, then deleted it again.