Not unusual. Remember, cops are dealing day in and day out, with the worst people,on the planet, and most cops are falsely accused many times by the scum that get arrested. You can see this for yourself just by watching the show cops, and seeing how many perps IMMEDIATELY start screaming about “police brutality” as they are wrestled to the ground while trying to beat the crap out of the cops. I’m amazed he only had 49 complaints in 20,years actually. That is a little over 2 per year, and the cop probably arrests hundreds if not 1000s per year of the worst of the worst.
Not saying he is innocent, just pointing out some facts that people, always conveniently never bring up,when complaining about cops.
I have a relative that recently retired from a rural Georgia police department as a chief of police and he told me an interesting story about his department. It was a small town and they immediately jumped on body cams for the officers and cruisers. He loved them as did most of the officers eventually.
He said he would about once or twice a week have a citizen come in raising hell about an abusive officer he had and wanted them fired and prosecuted. They would then produce a phone video of anywhere from a few seconds to a couple of minutes and he said usually the clip was absolutely damning for the officer involved.
He would then say well we record everything lets go to the IT room and pull up the entire encounter beginning to end and see what happened so we can be sure of what we are dealing with. He said at that point 90% plus of the complainants started backpedaling like they were on a new Pelaton bike running from a pissed off black bear! Well it wasn’t that bad, I don’t think I want to go through with this charge, I need to leave I have an appointment my dog needs a whiskerectomy, trying to get out of there. He then pulls up the entire event and clearly the original video submitted by the citizen was edited to destroy the officer. He would then talk about making false charges and the citizen would take off like a shot.
He really loved the cameras for that reason and others. He said he also noted times when officers would do things not worthy of dismissal but that needed addressed and he could do so either department wide or with the individual officer.
That may be if it weren’t for the fact from the article:
“The investigation was launched after three Miami police sergeants accused him of abusing his position”
It wasn’t just the public but 3 Police Sergeants.