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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Disposition changes (set / changed) | 58 |
| Allegations added / deleted | 39 |
| Finding changes | 60 |
| Classification changes (incl. Bias-Based Policing) | 8 |
| Incident type downgrades (External → Administrative) | 2 |
The Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs granted LSPD its first accreditation in May 2020 on the strength of a submission certified by then Chief Dyer. 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.
"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.
"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.
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.
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.
Bias-Based Policing tag added Dec 13, 2019; removed Jan 16, 2020 — days before WASPC accreditation. Denied in WASPC 2020.
Bias-Based Policing tag added Dec 13, 2019; de-classified Jan 16, 2020. Denied in WASPC 2020.
Downgraded from External Complaint to Administrative Review. Allegations against Wells, Marshall and Warbis deleted; officers reclassified as witnesses. Closed Unfounded.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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."
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."
Officers failed to use proper procedure when serving a domestic-violence protection order; complainant later alleged excessive force.
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."
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).
Sgt. Wells tackled an intoxicated juvenile shoplifting suspect, landed chest-to-chest on top of him, and — when the teenager said he could not breathe — replied "wrong answer." Medical aid was not requested until nearly 20 minutes later, after the boy was vomiting in the back of a patrol car.
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.
An independent Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Plan (LEMAP) assessment commissioned in 2013 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. Every IAPro manipulation documented from 2017 onward occurred against that documented notice.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
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.
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.
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