This proposed bill is flat out fascism. Rarely do our
elected legislators try and pass a bill so blatantly opposed to the rights of
the citizens of Kansas. This bill would prevent anyone from reporting abuse.
Wichita already has a self policing system in which no police officer has ever
been found guilty of wrong doing. Internal investigations are just a formality.
The police can do no wrong. Now they want to punish people who file complaints.
Few people can afford to risk a felony conviction for reporting something that
the police are just going to rubber stamp. Kansas politicians have little
respect for the rights of common citizens, and this bill is ludicrous.
-សតិវ អតុ
The Kansas House Standing
Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice has introduced a bill that will
require private citizens who file complaints against police officers to sign an
affidavit, acknowledging that if their allegations are proven false, they can
be charged with perjury, which is a felony charge.
Furthermore, this bill prohibits a
Kansas law enforcement agency from opening an investigation into a complaint if
another law enforcement agency has already investigated the complaint and found
in favor of the officer.
In other words, this bill would allow
police departments to arrest the people who file complaints against police
officers. In Wichita, Kansas, complaints are almost always dismissed, by the
Wichita Police Department, so, according to this bill and its vague wording,
the WPD, could now go arrest the people who file complaints against their
officers.
People in Wichita are already afraid
to file complaints against the WPD, because the department has a well-known
reputation for retaliating against those who do, and this bill would render
such retaliation legal. Furthermore, the bill clearly prevents an outside
agency, such as the Kansas Bureau of Investigations, from opening an
investigation into an allegation that the WPD has already ruled upon.
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