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Albany police, Office of Professional StandardsBy kateb, Section Diaries
The Office of Professional Standards is what used to be called Internal Affairs.
I'm making this diary entry to suggest that no one ever trust that office, because the government of the city of Albany manipulates it. It tells the head of the office to lie. I had contact with that office after I saw a police officer three separate times falsely threaten people with arrest. When I told A/C Bruno, he encouraged me to file a complaint. Mark Lyman also filed one about being falsely arrested. It was a weird experience filing it, because I went to three places that are supposed to take it and no one would until I finally insisted loudly. When I met with the head of that office, Det. Sgt Kuck, he lied or repeated a lie he was told, and said that Asst. Corp Counsel Patrick Jordan said he was never present when a boundary was painted on Brevator. That was appalling because Mr. Jordan had extended the invitation to Mark Lyman and me to come with him and Mr. Trudeau when Mr. Trudeau painted the boundary!!! This was arranged at a meeting with Chief Turley. We met Patrick Jordan and Mr. Trudeau in the pouring rain and watched while the boundary was measured and painted. Minutes later, riding in Mark's truck as he drove me back to my car downtown, Mark said the boundary was marked wronged, from the wrong starting point. I borrowed Mark's cell and called Patrick Jordan, who said he'd go right back and change it. I said it was pouring rain, I trust you Patrick, just make the change before Sunday and we'll get back to you if there's a problem. And he did. So I file the OPS complaint (encouraged by A/C Bruno) .... and Det. Sgt Kuck says Patrick Jordan told him he was never there. I told Sgt. Kuck if Patrick Jordan was going to lie, there was no point to this investigation, because he (Kuck) was never going to know the truth. I said we may as well withdraw the complaint. Sgt. Kuck told me he'd call Patrick Jordan right away. Then the story changed, and Kuck said Jordan said he made the first boundary but not the second. When I explained how that happened, Kuck revised it and said Jordan was NOW saying he painted both boundaries but it didn't mean anything......... I wrote a letter to Mayor Jennings and suggested that we ask the Attorney General to make a simple investigation of this complaint, since OPS was being manipulated. Mayor Jennings ignored the letter. Two months later Mark and I met with the FBI. (In the interim, DA Soares asked the court to dismiss Mark's false arrest.) Witness intimidation began as soon as I mentioned on this website that I would be filing a complaint with OPS, and it escalated the same day I met with the FBI. It is clear they are monitoring my activities. Det. Lt. Michael Tremblay is handling the investigation of witness intimidation and obstruction of justice. Lt. Tremblay has a very busy, difficult job, answering to many people. Today he told me this case should not have been assigned to him, that OPS is supposed to handle investigations that implicate Chief Tuffey and Commander Colonno. A/C Bruno had referred it to the detectives. I asked Lt. Tremblay who is supposed to play backup to OPS, and he had no answer. We're continuing to work together, with the assistance of Inv. Chris D'Alessandro. I was prompted to write all this after reflecting on something Lt. Tremblay said to me. I had recounted to him what happened last summer, when the witness intimidation started, and told him about the lying at OPS. Lt. Tremblay said "You don't know what he (Kuck) was told to do." He explained that police officers are often given troublesome orders, including lying, in very unworkable situations. I wanted to make this diary entry to let people know that that's how the City of Albany operates. I had to say it because it's not said in OPS materials, or info at Albany Law's website, or info about the Citizen's Review Board. I figured if I said it here, this missing part of the story, the lying, might show up in a google search. Manipulation and lying is acceptable at OPS. The officer in charge of investigations is told to manipulate them. You may as well skip dealing with it. Take your complaint to the FBI until it's cleaned up.
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