[mhuffman]

I made a complaint on an officer once and the next day his supervisor (who is Chief of Police now) called me up and said,

"... are you suuure you want to go through with this? Because if we investigate and can't prove any wrong-doing, we will charge you with filing a false complaint!"

Now, I didn't back down and got a letter from them saying, "we investigated and, although we are not going to tell you the outcome for privacy reasons if there was anything we would have given the appropriate punishment," or something along those lines.

I think that a civilian-oversight board (and I am fine with making them have security clearances) that can look into these once a year to make recommendations to the City Commission is not too much to ask for considering this is paid for with tax money and currently has little to no oversight.

[dontbenebby]

>I made a complaint on an officer once and the next day his supervisor (who is Chief of Police now) called me up and said, "... are you suuure you want to go through with this? Because if we investigate and can't prove any wrong-doing, we will charge you with filing a false complaint!"

I'd ask him to send me that in writing so I can prep my attorney.

[gruez]

Great in theory, but sounds like a good way to be targeted by the police.

[DoctorOetker]

Their response does not make sense: [the police's] absence of evidence [for your complaint] does not constitute evidence of absence [of what you claim happened], so this absence of evidence does not form a basis for charging you with a false complaint (unless they find actual evidence that whatever your complaint claimed did not happen)