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What Department? What State? In my State a complaint against an Officer has to be notarized. So a phoned in complaint would be given a number, and assigned to an investigator. Your Chief throwing that complaint in the trash without pushing it through formal channels is a crime here. I'm guessing it is in your jurisdiction also. And stop with the fictional stories. I'm only concerned with non-fiction. Policy, statute, code, and Relevant Case Law.
You are stacking L's.
Stacking l’s? Because you say so? Yeah, ok. And no, complaints do not have to be motorized for an internal matter. Now, allegations of excessive force or something criminal would have to be investigated by the state police. Bullshit complaints like I described do not. What crime we as committed and would have to be investigated because I dumped a bottle of cheap beer onto a sidewalk caked with nasty river mud and sewage and some mutant called to complain? That would be motorized in your state?
Now, the current chief did install an office of professional standards that handles the complaints and submits a finding to the chief whether the complaint is sustained or rejected. When he first took office, he scheduled meetings with every supervisor. I was a sergeant when he came on. We spoke about the direction he was planning to take the department and that included the professional standards. He asked if I was interested and I told him absolutely not. No way was I coming out of patrol division as the highest ranking sergeant on my shift to sit at a desk and read complaints written in crayon or have to talk to angry citizens over mostly stupid shit.
Before this chief, the previous three I worked under had the shift commander read the complaint and determine whether it even went to the chief’s deak. But the only thing that would be investigated and passed onto the state police would be allegations along criminal lines. In my state, all the state police are notaries and I don’t know the process of how they investigate. And it’s not that citizen complaints weren’t taken seriously, but the shit that the people I mentioned were such a joke that there’s nothing to investigate. Never had Garrity rights read. Never accused of any misconduct. Never wrecked or damaged a cruiser or other equipment except on the day of that flood where we were all assigned an area and assist fire department in getting people out of their homes that were hit by the flood. It was absolutely everywhere and we went to a hardware store and asked them if they had any inflatable rafts, which they did and they gave it to us. We were all soaked to the bone from the deluge, but when I was on that little raft and was trying to help a woman into the raft, I fell in and my gun and radio were damaged from the water. Again, not an investigation. I had to fill out damage to city property form and had the radio replaced and our armorer simply stripped my gun and cleaned it.
And again with “not interested in fiction.” First, you claim I am pretending that I was a cop for almost 20 years on here and I am making ahit up. Boy, I must have quite the imagination. But go ahead and tell me what code was violated by the incidents I described. There wasn’t even any applicable policy that could have been violated based upon those complaints.
Dinner time, so I don’t have time to read what other bullshit you commented on. Will get to it later, it I am sure it is a solid argument like bricks aren’t dangerous.