Over the last ten years I have had to report some crime , unfortunately. The Sheriff deputies could not write an accurate report to save their lives. In one case a detective made a very serious lie to cover his incompetency in the investigation. You can imagine where victims rights go when they do that.
In the other case I asked the detective to consider fixing the report. He said the issues were insignificant. The most blaring defect was about whether the crimes had happened once or 3 times. He wrote in his closing remarks that I had stated that the crime only occurred once , when I had said 3 times and had described each scenario in detail. I know it’s insignificant in that he wasn’t going to do a damn thing about it anyway, but geez, how could the victim think it was insignificant? How could the officer think he was giving the idea that he was protecting anyone?
Many other mistakes in report as well. Can’t go into those details here. I felt like I was in one of those games kids play where someone says something and it gets passed down a line of 30 kids until something completely unlike the original statement comes out. Trust me , I know there is no point in trying to go over his head. How good is it going to be in court, or in a deposition, if the victim has no other recourse than to say that the crime report is a POS? Not only does one get the idea that they are not being protected but also that the cop just doesn’t care.
Their tendency to be bullies who are above criticism is going to be a big impediment to getting better results anywhere within their duties. The brutality is terrible but we have some real keystone cops in a lot or ways. I can see this going very dystopian or even more dystopian in the future.