The Citizen Review Board investigates
complaints against police officers in the city and is currently suing police Chief Frank Fowler for not responding to four complaints.
There was a 26 percent drop in
civilian complaints against police between July and November, with 1,813 filed compared to 2,450 from the same time last year, according to the Civilian Complaint Review Board.
De Blasio credited the activism of Sharpton and NAN constituents with helping to alter the city's «broken stop - and - frisk policy,» and noted that crime has gone down since, along
with complaints against police officers.
And lending further weight to
citizen complaints against the police, the U.S. Justice Department has announced that it would launch a query into the circumstances surrounding the video and its release.
A New York State assemblyman from the Bronx has filed a
formal complaint against the police, claiming he was roughly handled by an officer after asking about police activity in his district.
She
predicts complaints against police, justified and unjustified, by people who think their blood was taken from them in wrong circumstances, not to mention sample reliability issues and safety concerns for all involved.
He also pointed to Labour's achievements in repealing section 28, equalising the age of consent, toughening laws against discrimination, introducing the Disability Discrimination Act, minimum wage and independent investigation and adjudication
of complaints against the police.
De Blasio spokeswoman Monica Klein said the city has invested $ 29 million to retrain officers, launched the «most focused» neighborhood policing strategy in any big city and reduced stop - and - frisk and
civilian complaints against police all while keeping crime near record lows.
To begin the process of launching a
public complaint against the police, the nature of the complaint must be outlined in writing, signed and addressed to the Chief of Police and delivered to any police station in the city of Edmonton or to the Police Commission Office.
Maya Wiley, counsel to the mayor, is taking a job heading the Civilian Complaint Review Board, an independent agency that investigates
complaints against police officers, and as a senior vice president for social justice at the New School in Manhattan, where she will also teach.
A lot of commenters have suggested this guy file
a complaint against the police department.
The meeting was also attended by an official from the Civilian Complaint Review Board, an independent entity that investigates
complaints against police.
Councilor Steven Thompson maintained that
complaints against the police will decrease with the use of body cameras.
«The common ploy by criminals is to get their retaliation in first and make
a complaint against the police to divert the attention of the authorities and put the heat on the police,» he said.
o For information on how to make
a complaint against the police, see our pamphlet How to Initiate a Public Complaint against the Edmonton Police Service and / or Security Guards
NOTE:
complaints against the police can take some time to complete, so if you are considering a civil suit you may want to start the process while you are preparing your complaint to make sure you don't miss the two year limitation period.
So if you want another person to be charged with a criminal offence starting
a complaint against the police will not force them to charge anyone, see the section on Laying a Private Information
All our expert lawyers are active members of the Police Action Lawyers Group, which represents solicitors specialising in
complaints against the police.