Police Misconduct · Falsified Reports
Reports That Do Not
Reports That Do Not
Match the Record
A police report is supposed to be a record, not a narrative. When statements and paperwork diverge from the video and the timeline, the divergence itself becomes evidence, and it can be documented line by line.
Attorney and law-firm inquiries only
The Scope
What this covers.
Within this engagement
- False or misleading officer statements
- Embellished and inaccurate police reports
- Falsified police reports
- Officer report-writing practices
- Police misconduct affecting a criminal prosecution
How it is analyzed
The reports themselves against body-worn and surveillance video, CAD records, and sworn statements, reconciled item by item to show where the paper and the record part ways.
Engagement terms and the published fee schedule: For Retaining Counsel →
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Questions
Before the record is sent.
What does a report-reconciliation opinion produce?
A documented comparison: each material claim in the reports checked against video, dispatch records and statements, with the divergences identified and sourced.
What does retention cost?
A non-refundable retainer of $8,000–$9,000 covering 29–33 hours of discovery review, report writing and conferences at $275 per hour. Most reports are completed within the retainer. The full published schedule is on the For Counsel page.
Retain
Send the reports.
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