HB 2698 would allow someone to be charged with felony perjury, plus no other law enforcement agency could re-open the file once it’t closed. “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,” says Kansas Exposed. “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.”
The bill would give the accused officer a chance to see all the evidence in his/her case before they answer any questions. “A bad cop who is given the entire complaint can construct a narrative informed by everything the investigators know, safe in the knowledge that there is no additional information that could later contradict him,” says the Post’s Radely Balko.
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