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Can I Sue the Police?
<p>Long story short:</p>

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<li>My son was backed into by a truck earlier this month.</li>
<li>They left the scene.</li>
<li>I called the police, they showed, up I wrote a statement and everything.</li>
<li>My son later was in the hospital complaining of pain and has had a few visits since.</li>
<li>I reached out to the officer, never heard back.</li>
<li>I went to the police department today and found out that the officer did not fill out a MVA or anything and in his dispatch report he said no crime was committed and no charges were filed when my son was injured and I told the officer that I wanted to press charges against the person that hit my son.</li>
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<p>A traffic accident is often not a crime even when someone is injured. So suing the police is unlikely to get you anywhere. You can get a lawyer and ask what your chances are to sue the driver who is the person who actually caused the injury, not the police. </p>
