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Many officers mentioned Riley's hiring of former state police officers to fill paid consultant positions. Others questioned Riley's skills as a communicator, recalling incidents when Riley dressed them down for petty offenses...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Giving Back to the Community | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...Riley admits that he has a hard edge but says it is only in response to an intransigent department bureaucracy...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Giving Back to the Community | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...Riley's decisions and leadership--not a man to seek or heed consensus, his critics charge he makes decisions by himself and fails to justify them to others--have led to a number of other internal problems in the same time...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Giving Back to the Community | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

According to multiple sources, when he arrived Riley soon asked his lieutenants and sergeants a simple question: "What do you do here...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Giving Back to the Community | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...answers didn't please him. "It seemed to me that I had a lot of people that didn't know what they were doing," Riley said...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Giving Back to the Community | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

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