2 former CPD chiefs blast city’s rules for removing problematic cops as shooting victim seeks to reinstate record $45 million award

“If given the opportunity and the authority, we’d have terminated Kelly long before shooting LaPorta,” wrote McCarthy and Weis, the former superintendents. “Instead, the City’s investigative agency … overturned a disciplinary recommendation after Kelly beat his girlfriend with a box fan in 2005 and never once disciplined him prior to the shooting. Now, 11 years after shooting LaPorta … the process of merely disciplining an abusive officer has become a decadelong, bureaucratic nightmare.”