Thursday, November 20, 2008
News Police Citizen Review Board (finally) gets its first case
Posted by Mara Shalhoup on Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:15 PM
More than a year and a half after its creation, Atlanta's Citizen Review Board has started investigating cases of police misconduct.
The board was formed in the aftermath of the Thanksgiving-eve 2006 killing of 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston, who was repeatedly shot in her home by two Atlanta cops serving an illegally obtained warrant.
According to a press release:
On November 13, 2008, the Atlanta Citizen Review Board held its monthly meeting and considered its first seven complaints. The Board voted unanimously to seek further investigation or information concerning three of the complaints and to refer two of the remaining four complaints to the Atlanta Police Department Office of Professional Standards. The remaining two complaints have already been investigated by the Office of Professional Standards.The ordinance requires ... that the complaints fall into six specific categories of alleged misconduct. The categories include abusive language, false arrest, false imprisonment, harassment, excessive force, and serious bodily injury or death which is alleged to be the result of a sworn employee of the police or corrections departments. The four cases that were dismissed were either untimely or did not fall into the classifications authorized by the Ordinance.
So I guess the board doesn't hear allegations of bribery or corruption — just garden-variety brutality. Best leave complaints about systemic ills to the APD's in-house Office of Professional Affairs, huh.
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