So here's what happened. Venice Police officer Michael Frassetti arrested Joshua Rose for drunk driving on May 28, 2008. Joshua Rose's uncle/cousin (it is somehow unclear) is Lieutenant Mike Rose...Frassetti's immediate supervisor. On June 4, Lieutenant Mike Rose informed officer Michael Frassetti that he was under investigation for deleting police files. Turns out that while said files are missing, the IT system of the Venice PD is so bad that often files are screwed up or deleted quite often...but that doesn't stop the prosecution of what appears to be a good cop.

So the moral of the story here is that there are a few police that are corrupt that will lie and cheat to get their way. In doing this, they make ALL police look corrupt. Maybe the police should kick the bad cops out?

Update: Part 2 of the investigation.