The public reaction to the video drove out the police superintendent and led to an investigation by the Justice Department.
But W. Gerald Massengill, the former State Police superintendent who led the state's investigation, rejected the contention that Policy Group members did not alert their families.
"D's are simply not useful in society," said Larrie Reynolds, the Mount Olive superintendent, who led the campaign against D's as a way to raise the bar and motivate students to work harder.
"I have been on the police force since 1980, and I have never seen a case like this," said Ranier Idio, a senior police superintendent who led the investigation of the group.
David Hurley, the detective superintendent who led the review, has since claimed he had "no control" over the "editorial content" which was turned over to unspecified "senior officers" in the final analysis.
In December, Superintendent Akter led a raid on an apartment on the outskirts of the city that the police said belonged to the banned group Jamaat-ul-Mujahedeen Bangladesh, according to the local news media.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Francis C. Grevemberg, a former state police superintendent who led a sledgehammer-swinging crackdown against illegal gambling in Louisiana in the 1950s, died Monday in Conyers, Ga., where he had lived since Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005.
W. Gerald Massengill, the former state police superintendent who led the state's investigation into the attack, said Wednesday that investigators had interviewed Mr. Miller's successor at the counseling center, Dr. Christopher Flynn.
Yesterday, Steven Mandelsberg, the president of the co-op board at the Carnegie Hill 91st Street Court on the Upper East Side, watched a Con Ed employee, escorted by two police officers, enter his building and direct the superintendent to lead them to the power supply.
