MIchelle Yu is not a police officer. She is a civilian who works in Honolulu Police Department's media office. Michelle is hard working and honest.  When Michelle releases very little information, it is because she is restricted by what HPD's higher ups will allow her to reveal.  HPD's top brass for years has been paranoid about the media.  In the past, HPD leadership has viewed reporters as the enemy rather than as part of a conduit HPD can use to spread useful information to keep Oahu safer as well as the truth when bad cops commit crimes and get off the hook with little discipline.. When this happens, hundreds of good, professional police officers suffer in embarrassment over the coverups. Michelle is not the problem.  The problem is deep and structural at HPD caused by a few police officers at the top, who believe they work for themselves under a curtain of secrecy rather than for the public they serve.