Chief Ben Moskowitz

So back to our shooting example, the fact that someone died is one of the elements, but the intent of the person is another of the elements. So we'd have to be able to establish each of these elements and probable cause for each of the elements in each crime. All right. So I hope that makes some level of sense.

So back to our shooting example, the fact that someone died is one of the elements, but the intent of the person is another of the elements. So we'd have to be able to establish each of these elements and probable cause for each of the elements in each crime. All right. So I hope that makes some level of sense.

Not only am I the police chief, I'm also a coroner. I actually ordered myself some scrubs. I'll show them to you. They just showed up the other day. I got here and I was like, I'm the coroner too. We need to parse that out. There needs to be an independent review body besides the police department. So anyway, sorry, back to the story.

Not only am I the police chief, I'm also a coroner. I actually ordered myself some scrubs. I'll show them to you. They just showed up the other day. I got here and I was like, I'm the coroner too. We need to parse that out. There needs to be an independent review body besides the police department. So anyway, sorry, back to the story.

So when he kills himself, it's our responsibility as the coroner, or my deputy coroners that are out there, to help establish evidence that proves manner and cause of death. Because we contract, we don't do the autopsies, right? The scrubs are a bit of a tongue-in-cheek joke, but they really do exist.

So when he kills himself, it's our responsibility as the coroner, or my deputy coroners that are out there, to help establish evidence that proves manner and cause of death. Because we contract, we don't do the autopsies, right? The scrubs are a bit of a tongue-in-cheek joke, but they really do exist.

So we contract out the autopsies, we contract out other things, and then we put all that together and we have a physician sign off on whatever the cause and manner of death is. But that's part of our responsibility.

So we contract out the autopsies, we contract out other things, and then we put all that together and we have a physician sign off on whatever the cause and manner of death is. But that's part of our responsibility.

wouldn't it have been much easier to call us and ask us or to call me if they didn't trust the investigators or to call the mayor or to call the prosecutor or, I mean, there's gotta be some level of at least try the right way to collaborate. In Hawaii, collaboration is a huge thing. I've lived on the mainland, I've lived all over the world. It's just, it's different here.

wouldn't it have been much easier to call us and ask us or to call me if they didn't trust the investigators or to call the mayor or to call the prosecutor or, I mean, there's gotta be some level of at least try the right way to collaborate. In Hawaii, collaboration is a huge thing. I've lived on the mainland, I've lived all over the world. It's just, it's different here.

The way that people treat each other typically and the way that groups, even that groups that may disagree strongly on things, work together here is incredible. And there was, doesn't seem to be any of that. For them to have called around to the morgue, well, first of all, the... Again, the coroner happens to be the police chief.

The way that people treat each other typically and the way that groups, even that groups that may disagree strongly on things, work together here is incredible. And there was, doesn't seem to be any of that. For them to have called around to the morgue, well, first of all, the... Again, the coroner happens to be the police chief.

So he didn't talk to the coroner or the medical examiner because he didn't. I mean, he may have called the morgue where the bodies are kept and talked to somebody who confirmed something they may or may not have should have been able to. how much easier would it have been to pick up the phone and call or send an email?

So he didn't talk to the coroner or the medical examiner because he didn't. I mean, he may have called the morgue where the bodies are kept and talked to somebody who confirmed something they may or may not have should have been able to. how much easier would it have been to pick up the phone and call or send an email?

And if we don't get back to him or we say, Pound Sam, we're not going to tell you, then all right. But why not try to see if the front door is unlocked before you try to find a window to sneak through on the backside?

And if we don't get back to him or we say, Pound Sam, we're not going to tell you, then all right. But why not try to see if the front door is unlocked before you try to find a window to sneak through on the backside?

I mean, stuff like that makes it difficult to continue to try to foster a collaborative relationship when then that turns into bombs being hurled through filings that the police department intended. We knew we wanted him to kill himself.

I mean, stuff like that makes it difficult to continue to try to foster a collaborative relationship when then that turns into bombs being hurled through filings that the police department intended. We knew we wanted him to kill himself.

There is a certain member of the Hawaii Innocence Project who's been very vocal in the media the last 48 hours, who said some really mean and nasty things about the police department and what our intentions were. And like we've always said, anything that we can share or that has been shared that is out there that we can now comment on, we're more than willing to do that.

There is a certain member of the Hawaii Innocence Project who's been very vocal in the media the last 48 hours, who said some really mean and nasty things about the police department and what our intentions were. And like we've always said, anything that we can share or that has been shared that is out there that we can now comment on, we're more than willing to do that.