Des Moines hides details of costly settlement with police chief candidate

By: Randy Evans

Outlets: Iowa Capital Dispatch

Published: March 16, 2026

Words: 1,086

Last Updated: 4 months, 3 weeks ago

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City leaders in Des Moines are making it difficult to understand why they selected the new police chief, considering how they have imposed a code of silence about their recent $975,000 payout to one of the candidates who did not get the job.

The payout and, even worse, the sealed lips are just another example of how common sense and good government suffer whenever public officials refuse to detail how and why they spend …

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