Greece police officers violated more than 20 internal regulations in the course of responding to former Chief Drew Forsythe's late-night car crash in October, according to a stinging external review released Tuesday.
Forsythe was driving drunk when he crashed his patrol car into a guardrail on I-390, but told responding officers that he had swerved to avoid a deer and was trying to return to the nearest precinct station. That was a lie, District Attorney Sandra Doorley later determined; Forsythe resigned and pleaded guilty to driving while ability impaired and leaving the scene of an accident, both violations.
Doorley accused GPD of going along with a cover-up of the incident, and the town enlisted Joseph Morabito, a former deputy chief in the Rochester Police Department, to investigate.
In his eight-page report, Morabito recounted numerous instances where responding and supervising officers either failed in their basic investigatory duties — for instance, not asking Forsythe whether he'd been drinking — or had taken steps to cover his tracks. In one case, a supervising officer told a subordinate not to take photos of the scene of the crash.
Forsythe was drinking heavily earlier in the evening of the crash at a fundraiser for the New York State Troopers Benevolent Association, an event that at least some of the investigating Greece officers knew he was attending.
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