Sting tests officers on complaints by public
From Times Staff Reports
A sting operation to test whether police officers are taking citizen complaints correctly found that 74% of them passed without problems. Auditors posing as civilians approached officers 65 times with requests to file complaints.
In 48 cases, the officers took the complaints without problem; in nine cases, complaints were eventually filed but the officers’ level of cooperativeness was judged “substandard”; and in eight instances, the officers “failed” by not taking the complaint.
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