article_snippet.sent: people in this South Carolina city call it inevitable in a police department people in this South Carolina city believe focuses on petty crimes and fails to keep it officers in check.
article_snippet.sent: People in the community Officer Michael Slager served say this reflects what's going wrong with policing today: Officers nearly always get the last word when citizens complain.
article_snippet.sent: two men've had through the years numerous similar complaints, and they all seem to be taken lightly and dismissed without any obvious investigation,' the Rev. Joseph Darby, vice president of the Charleston branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said Thursday.
article_snippet.sent: Many said police in South Carolina's third-largest city routinely dismiss complaints of petty brutality and harassment, even when eyewitnesses can attest to police misbehavior.
article_snippet.sent: Darby also wonders if Saturday's fatal shooting might have turned out differently had the department thoroughly investigated the 2013 Taser complaint. '
article_snippet.sent: Darby and other civil rights leaders want North Charleston to create an independent citizens review board to review complaints against police, since 'law enforcement is going to almost always give law enforcement the benefit of the doubt.'
article_snippet.sent: North Charleston police spokesman Spencer Pryor said Wednesday that the department now plans to review Givens complaint, although North Charleston police spokesman Spencer Pryor wouldn't say what difference that could make now.
highlights_snippet.sent: South Carolina residents say complaints dismissed without investigation .
  