Originally Posted by GUWonder
The reports are property of the payor, and I would doubt that they would want them published given the conclusions.
If I recall correctly, "innocent people" were something akin to those who were stopped (or more) for recorded periods of time but not charged and prosected.
There were several measures of what may be said to approximate with being "dishonest" (as you term it but I would not): including various failures in self-reporting, self-admitted falsified recording when confronted with video evidence and such.
I have to question the validity and existence of this study.
If this was an internal study (by the department or agency) this is public information and is subject to the Freedom of Information Act, since this is a governement agency that was studied. Since this would have been payed by public funds, we would have a right to know the results, methods and evidence. If this was an internal investigation, which appears to be quite extensive, funding would have had to be in addition to the operating budget and approved through a budget commission or the like. This is not likely to produce a cover up and would be impossible to accomplish. I would have to say, Agency X suspects, finds evidence and then takes no action, why spend the money. Why not save the money, since we won't do anything with the information anyway, and then we don't find ourselves covering up anything.
If this was an external study, by an outside source, what would be the use. "We suspect wrongdoing, we are going to investigate it, but we won't let anyone know when we find wrongdoing".
I would find it highly unlikely that this study is not being published for the "embarrassment" reason or any other reason.
I was speaking with my colleagues who remembered a television report in the northeast of a limited number of incidents, several years ago, that you described. This report did not present that dihonesty is systemic of law enforcement and was very limited in its scope and focused on only one area of one law enforcement agency.