The two-witness rule that applies in all cases of complaints of wrongdoing had not been revised or improved since the organisation was founded in the late 19th century.
The documents indicate that Grieve and another senior officer recorded the meeting to protect themselves from complaints of wrongdoing by Brooks.
Detective Alvarez, 42, accused the police of violating his civil and constitutional rights and discriminating against him by not looking into his complaints of wrongdoing by police officers because he is Hispanic.
Mr. Donaldson tried to deflect criticism from state officials, like Attorney General Eliot Spitzer of New York and William F. Galvin, secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, that the commission had been too quick to settle complaints of wrongdoing in the case it brought against Putnam Investments, the nation's fifth-largest fund company.
The interrogator who filed the complaint was cleared of wrongdoing.
It urged schools to set up committees to adjudicate complaints of sexual wrongdoing, even of heinous crimes such as rape.
Barlow's complaints of government wrongdoing got a boost when Paul C. Warnke, who served as an Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Lyndon Johnson and as director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in the Carter Administration, reviewed the case and agreed to represent Barlow on a pro-bono basis.
In the last 11 years, there have been 3,680 complaints of criminal wrongdoing involving public officials in L.A. County — a statistic that includes cities, county offices, school districts, water boards and other public agencies (southeast L.A. County represented a disproportionate number of the cases, officials said).
Neither complaint constitutes a finding of wrongdoing.
He was also named in 10 civilian complaints, including 19 separate allegations of wrongdoing, during his career of nearly 11 years on the city force.
