Arnold was placed on administrative duty, then suspended. She tried to fight her termination and lost.
S.L. filed her suit in November 2010.
As Judge Jackson sees it, S.L.
does not assert that the St. Louis police department fails to investigate police misconduct but, rather, that the commissioners have failed to take effective action in response to a known problem. She cites 23 instances of false reporting in the five-year period before her arrest in which SLMPD officers were found to have submitted false reports to conceal unlawful conduct, including planting evidence, committing perjury, drug dealing, accepting bribes and falsifying information in search warrants.... the officers involved in these cases do not appear in IAD reports, suggesting that they were never investigated.
And the Board? Jackson writes:
commissioners are not informed about IAD investigations unless and until an officer appeals a decision.... In addition to remaining ignorant of individual cases of alleged wrongdoing, there is evidence that commissioners are not informed even in summary form of the number and subject of IAD investigations.... Plaintiff argues that defendants' failure to reform their practices amounts to deliberate indifference.If the parties don't settle, that "deliberate indifference" will be a matter for a "reasonable jury" to decide.
