From an e-mail:
- Had to pass this info along.
A fellow dispatcher (police officer) had a friend tell her this: her son was issued a few citations on a traffic stop in 018 dist. Shortly afterward, her son received , in the mail, a letter from Supt McCarthy’s office requesting he fill out a survey online regarding the officer’s behavior that made the stop, ie..was he/she polite? Aggressive, etc. You are given a pin # and this is allegedly totally anonymous! These letters are currently being sent to citizens involved in accidents, traffic stops & dui stops. Unknown if mailed out to all or just a random few.
The officer that shared this info with me today had already asked a few other pos …all were unaware. I passed it along to a few pos working today and they were unaware & shocked. Please let the troops know that the city is now letting the citizens compile your performance reviews. I just can’t imagine any citizen having anything good to say about an officer that just gave them a ticket!
Did we miss this somewhere? What's the point? Is this a fishing expedition for Complaint Register numbers or Verbal Abuse beefs? Does anyone really think that a citizen who just got a few hundred dollars worth of moving violations is going to tell anything resembling the truth?
And weren't cameras in the cars supposed to protect us from the types of that might be raised in these situations? Is the Department admitting cameras are a failure and we have to rely on paper and postage to get feedback from citizens?