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During the campaign over Prop. H, the police union's attorney, Katherine Mahoney, cited the Breslin case as an example of why the ballot measure wasn't needed. "The OCC asked the commission to have the chief file charges, and he did," she said. "It shows that the system works."
Not quite.
Two years after Lau relented under pressure to file charges, there's been no discipline of Breslin or anyone else. The Police Commission sat on the charges and Breslin's lawyers have since filed motions to toss them out, citing statutes of limitation. In the parlance of the Police Commission, five years and three chiefs after Sheila Detoy was gunned down, the matter is "pending."
