Mr. Brown said that "if the complaint is egregious, or a large amount of money is involved or there is a pattern of complaints" against a business, his office will bring a lawsuit.
The Better Business Bureau gives BBG Communications an "F," based on more than 500 complaints received over three years and a failure "to resolve the underlying cause of a pattern of complaints".
A pattern of complaints about the Newark police stretches back decades, and when Cory A. Booker took office as mayor in 2006, ending the scandal-scarred, 20-year tenure of Sharpe James, he pledged to reform the Police Department.
The raids followed a drumbeat of suggestions from the government that Washington was funneling money to groups here in order to destabilize the country — a pattern of complaints that American officials have denounced as creeping "anti-Americanism".
The legal ombudsman has advanced proposals to publish summaries of complaints against each and every law firm and the outcome of those complaints (whether substantiated or not), and to publish prior to a decision where there has been a pattern of complaints.
The pattern of complaints is clearly seen on the NHTSA Web site, which lists each incident and when it was reported.
"We identified a pattern of complaints that had developed and determined that there was a need to take a closer look at the reason why there was a high number of allegations of officers failing to identifying themselves," explained Mike Tobin, the OPC's executive director.
So most probably there is something more behind it.' Another possibility was when the pattern of complaints differed from usual.
There were also no differences in the overall proportion of men and women who self-reported side effects, but the pattern of complaints was slightly different.
Though his darkly comic descriptions of his parent's abusive behavior are initially shocking, they soon devolve into a repetitive pattern of complaint, and the reader begins to tire of his crude put-downs and even cruder vows of revenge.
