Watchdog: Two whistleblowing Richardson cops say they were frozen out of the department | DaveLieber
Watchdog Dave Lieber: They charge that, along with illegal ticket quotas, unnecessary arrests can puff up officers’ scores
This can cause troubling results. Perhaps people are arrested who shouldn’t be, not because they deserve it, but to help get the officer’s activity numbers up.The court papers paint a picture of how ostracism in a police department works. At crime scenes or at the station when Conklin tried to talk to a superior, his bosses ignored him by pretending they couldn’t hear. Sounds like high school.
“It is obviously unconstitutional to arrest persons without probable cause of committing a crime merely because the person was innocently present or nearby when third parties committed a crime,” their lawyer Eric N. Roberson of Dallas writes in his brief.After Walker went public, retribution was swift. “Walker was made to pay and suffer,” the lawsuit charges.
It got to a point where it became too much for Walker. When a female officer tried to comfort her with a hug for moral support, that officer was later chastised and warned to avoid offering support because it could be detrimental to her career.In the briefing room, when Walker sat next to another officer, that officer moved to another seat.In April, Walker was summoned to a meeting with a sergeant who told her he felt uncomfortable around her.
Tabulations for each officer showing tickets written and arrests are part of each patrol officer’s evaluation process. Don’t write enough tickets or make enough arrests and your career suffers,A case study in "the blue wall of silence." Richardson police officers Kayla Walker and David Conklin at Richardson City Hall. Both are on unpaid leave. They filed a lawsuit against their department in federal court.
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