Sheriff investigator charged with filing false reports - closed files without interviewing victim

[Liberal_in_LA]

O.C. sheriff's investigator charged with filing false reports
September 10, 2009 | 12:19 pm

An investigator with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department was charged today with filing false reports and claiming that she had contacted victims of serious crimes when she had not.

Janet Virginia Strong, a 25-year-veteran of the department, is accused of stating in her reports that no further investigation could be conducted, effectively closing the cases before a suspect was apprehended.

The district attorney’s office outlined five instances dating from 2007 in which Strong filed police reports saying that she had contacted victims of crimes and that she determined there should not be further investigation. In most of the cases, authorities said, Strong never contacted the victim.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/09/oc-sheriffs-investigator-charged-with-filing-false-reports-.html

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Thats how children are imprisoned for years.

[kestrel91316]

2. Wouldn't surprise me if this went on on a truly grand scale with LAPD.........

I have filed various and sundry police complaints over the decades, and rarely has an investigator bothered to give me a single call. And yes, all the complaints had merit and most had a corroborating witness.

[david13]

3. Not only is it a common government employee problem, it is a

very common american worker problem.
The do nothing syndrome. Very common. Why GM & Chrysler are bankrupt. In other words, it isn't just the police.
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