this is article referred to in last post, found it! after reading see if you agree this is tantamount to ecvidence tampering, and who knows how many counts?
The Ferguson police have indicated that there were no disciplinary reports in Darren Wilson's file.
What Chief Jackson didn't tell anyone at any of the press conferences was that, until he took over in 2010, use of force complaints were not kept in an officer's personnel file.
Jen Hayden wrote about the Henry Davis case on Friday: Ferguson police beat a man and then charged him with 'destruction of property' for bloody uniforms
What I found interesting in the Daily Beast article by Michael Daly, was the way use of force complaints were treated by the Ferguson PD.
When Henry Davis' lawyer, James Schottel tried to find out what type of record the officers who beat his client had, he uncovered a can of worms.
Schottel got another unpleasant surprise when he sought the use-of-force history of the officers involved. He learned that before a new chief took over in 2010 the department had a surprising protocol for non-fatal use-of-force reports. “The officer himself could complete it and give it to the supervisor for his approval,” the prior chief, Thomas Moonier, testified in a deposition. “I would read it. It would be placed in my out basket, and my secretary would probably take it and put it with the case file.”
No copy was made for the officer’s personnel file.
Daily Beast - August 15, 2014
No investigation. Just an officer writing up his excuse. The excuse went in the case file and nothing went on the officer's "record."
so once again you don't file or archive things you don't want the public to scrutinize, that is a really damning thing policing on the fly, if you got a cat out of a tree yep in the files kill or beat unlawfully bury it and don't record it, if feds ever investigate looks really criminal as far as their protocol. all those who lost someone under curious circumstances should get a lawyer and sue in class action.
