Susan Hutson, the acting police monitor, claimed in an article in the UT Daily Texan that she wanted to "lessen the fear" and "create a level playing field."
Is she even trying?
When I filed a complaint against APD officers who had falsified police reports, Ms. Hutson's final report only reflected the side of the accussed police officers. The documents, evidence and facts i provided to her office were not to be found-anywhere.
Her office also provided my name, address, phone number, date of birth, driver's license number to the accussed officers. Making it easy for those officers to track me down. How is that for "lessening the fear?"
When I asked the compliance specialist, Mr. Gonzales, for a copy of the APD policies and procedures section which the officers had violated, he refused-three times. At one point, he opened the manual but refused to read me one word of the policy. I had to go to the Austin History center to get a copy of this section.
Then, Ms. Hutson is shown baffled in an recent Austin American Stateman story as to why complaints from other officers are upheld more than those from common citizens. It is because officers already know the policies that the accussed officers have violated. They do not have to rely on the honor of the compliance specialist or the Internal Affairs Officer to put it in the complaint affidavit.
'Cause i found no honor at the police monitor's office under Susan Hutson. They covered up the misconduct of the police officers. That makes the current APD police monitor system one "that treat[s] complainants as adversaries."
This is a violation of the Police Misconduct statute.
Title 42, U.S.C., Section 14141 makes it unlawful for state or local law enforcement agencies to allow officers to engage in a pattern or practice of conduct that deprives persons of rights protected by the Constitution or U.S. laws. This law, commonly referred to as the Police Misconduct Statute, gives the Department of Justice authority to seek civil remedies in cases where law enforcement agencies have policies or practices that foster a pattern of misconduct by employees.
Is it possible that Ms. Hutson has confused the duties of police monitor with those of city attorney?
