In California, under Peanl Code, do I have the right to make a police report?
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A report about what?  There is no "right" in the penal code to make a report about anything you want to report.  Law enforcement agencies typically only take reports about crimes, and if you don't want to report an actual crime, you might not have a real-live, offical police report taken.\n\nPost some more information; I'll keep an eye on the question and maybe we can get this sorted out for you.  What is it you're wanting to report?\n\nEDIT 2/17/06:\n\nIf you want an intelligent answer, don't get snippy with the folks you're asking questions of.  If this is how you are with Cathedral City, that might explain why you're not getting the cooperation you'd like.\n\nI did answer part of your question, based on what you asked.  Nowhere in the Penal Code do you have the "right" to file a police report.  There are several sections that require law enforcement to take a report, but that's not the same and conspiracy and resisting arrest are not among them.  \n\nSpeaking of those sections, I doubt very much that Cathedral City is going to take a 148 PC report from you unless you are a peace officer or are otherwise entitled to be covered under that section.  148 PC is the crime of resisting, delaying, or obstructing a peace officer in the performance of their duties.  If you're not one, there's nothing for you to report.\n\nAs for the conspiracy you want to report, I'll just assume that you know what you're talking about and know what it takes to be charged with and guilty of conspiracy.  If that's the case, and if the PD won't accept a report from you, and you've exhausted your other opportunities within the PD (asking to speak with a watch commander, making an appointment to talk with the patrol commander, etc.), then I would recommend you contact the District Attorney's office in that county and ask to speak with a DA investigator (or inspector, or whatever they call them down there, it varies from office to office).\n\nYour comment about "EVERY State in the Union has codes to allow for police reports, complaints against officers, and arrests" is very likely true, though it isn't what you originally asked.  California has over 29  different statutory codes and some of them allow for police reports.  You can view the whole collection at the link below, in fact.\n\nCalifornia has Penal Code sections that discuss filing complaints against peace officers.  Using the link below, you can review sections 832.5 and 148.6 PC for more information.\n\nI don't know what you mean about every state having codes to allow for arrests, so I won't comment (it seems fairly obvious, so maybe I'm missing something).\n\nYour question was poorly worded and incomplete.  You made a number of assumptions in both the original question and in your follow-up comments, and you clearly lack some perspective (just because you're asking the question about reporting a crime does not mean that you really have a crime to report...people come in all the time to report the crime of "harrassment," and generally speaking, no such crime exists...so it's not unreasonable for me to wonder if you really have a crime to report).  When I answered part of your question and asked for more clarification, you got a little snippy with me.  \n\nIf you really want to work with the justice system and get the cooperation you're looking for and deserve, bring the attitude down a few thousand feet before you continue.  Get your *facts* (I really can't stress that word enough)together, ask reasonable questions and insist on reasonable answers.  \n\nI suspect there won't be any more answers here to your question because I haven't seen any California cops here besides me, so far.  That, plus what comes across as some attitude, is probably going to keep any of them from talking to you anyway.  However, if you'd like to discuss the situation furthe
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California does not make specific information available to the public except as required by Megan's Law,and does not maintain a searchable database so if he and his family don't feel like telling you. it must be none of your business.\nIf you are, by chance, the victim of the crime, you can ask the District Attorny's office to notify you when he is released, but beyond that, you have no "right" to any information.
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Ask your local police department they should know.
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Honestly, where do you some of you people get the ideas you get?\n\nTo the asker:  assuming everything you said here is 100% factual, and assuming you didn't leave anything out, and assuming you have *all* the facts in the first place, then no, it doesn't sound like there was any probable cause to pull you over.  \n\nHowever, here's what I suspect, because I have done this very thing:\n\nI'm the cop you and your friend drove past when he/she yelled whatever they yelled.  Evidently, your friend wanted to come to the attention of the police, so I'm generally happy to oblige.  You don't say (and probably don't know) if it was the same cop who pulled you over, but it doesn't matter...we've got radios, ya' know?  \n\nSo anyway, back to your friend who wants to be a policeman's project:\n\nWhether I take off after you or I radio to one of my partners, one of us catches up to you.  You don't signal where you should, you have a taillight out, your registration is expired, etc., etc., and that provides me probable cause to stop you.  It's quite possible, especially if you developed an attitude problem, that I will tell you the only reason you're being stopped is because of your friend, the loudmouth.\n\nThe liberal among us will not like this, I know.  However, probable cause in this state is probable cause, and the motivation behind my use of probable cause is irrelevant to your guilt or innocence.  \n\nSo if you're right, the cop was wrong and you certainly do want to talk to an attorney.\n\nIf I'm right, you got pulled over because your idiot friend brought your car to the attention of the police, and it sounds like you paid a price for that.  Choose your friends better next time you're drinking and driving.\n\nAnd no, yelling out of your car is not disorderly conduct in California.  It's a rude and stupid exercise of your right to free speech.\n\nShouting something at the police is not an indication that you're not a reasonable person, and being an unreasonable person does not provide the police with reasonable cause to pull you over.  Holy cow, if this were true I could pull people over a hundred times a day.  \n\nBeing disrespectful to the police does not qualify as disorderly conduct.  It qualifies as stupid, but stupid does not equate to probable cause to effect a detention or make an arrest.  Don't I wish.\n\nYeah, we're always making things up just to pull you over.  I routinely risk being convicted of perjury and jailed for civil rights violations just to see if you've got big hooters, are drunk, or have a little weed in your car.  Please.\n\nYou're welcome to have just about any bumper sticker you want on your car and not have to worry about getting a ticket.  First of all, like I said, we do live in the land of free speech so you can have anything you want on your bumper.  If it says "I'm plotting to kill the President," you might end up with a visit from the Secret Service, but you can't get a ticket for displaying even an obscene bumper sticker.  \n\nHanging out the window is a good indication that you're not wearing your seat belt, but I'm not sure I'm familiar with a crime called "reckless endangerment."  \n\nI'm glad showing poor judgement doesn't really qualify as cause for the police to investigate.  If it did, I would literally spend my entire day talking to people with extraordinarily poor judgement who weren't committing a crime.  I do enough of that now.\n\nAnyway, I hope the cops had a really wonderful reason for pulling you over, once your friend decided you needed to stopped.  I hope their reason is enough to get you into court and convicted, if you really were driving in violation of the drunk driving laws in this state.  Your decision to do so put a huge number of people at risk...all of whom, except yourself, would have been innocent victims of your profoundly poor
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Just call up the PD and ask them, they will tell you!
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report yourself to the police
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You might be better off to contact the State Police with criminal complaints on county officers.  Locally they are a brotherhood and unlikely to do anything but send out a warning.
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You've really got to explain what state you're in.  \n\nIn California, I'd say no.  In fact, since juvenile arrests are confidential, there's even a school of thought that says the parents aren't entitled to know - at least not from the police (not saying I agree with that, just saying there's evidently some law to support it).  \n\nAnd I'd suggest that even if the cops did violate some sort of parental notification law in whatever state you're in, you shouldn't count on the minor "getting off" on that technicality...especially since no statement was made by the minor.  Depending on the state, I could be WAY wrong...but I think it would be bizarre.\n\nAlso, as much as I know people like to think the cops go around breaking the law every chance they get, it's really just not the case.  If there was a law that said the cops in your case had to tell the parents what the minor did, I imagine the cops would have told the parents what the minor did.  I can't imagine there'd be much to gain from not telling the parents if the law required it.  \n\nAnd really...the minor "...does something really stupid and potentially fatal to someone else..." and you're worried about the cops not telling the parents what the kid did?  Seems like there might be bigger issues to deal with here.
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I don't know what state you live in, but when you file a complaint that is later investigated in most states the complainant can not be identified by the police, your friends are yanking your chain.  All the police do is send over an officer to measure the decible level, then they knock on the door and say they just measured the decible level and it exceeds the city's ordinance.  If they don't turn down the noise the by-law officer or the police officer then can file charges based on their measurement of the decible level alone.
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go to the police and in return file a report for a false police report
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You can't, California changed the law on domestic violence in 1991 I believe.  They made is a felony, and they made it easier for an officer to make the charges without a complaint by a victim.  I was an officer at the time; and the rule was if you saw an evidence of the violence ( a bruse, a cut, scratch what ever ) you could charge the other person with domestic violence and the victim wouldn't have to do or say anything.  As such the victim can't drop the charge - its not made by them - its made by the arresting officer.
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Like mikeysco said: Yes, yes, and yes. \n\nHere is an excerpt from a CA District Attorney's article that discusses Miranda and courts' rulings on it:\n\nMINORS: Minors have the same Miranda rights as adults and, therefore, need not be\ngiven any additional information. In the past, there was some confusion over whether\nofficers must notify a minor that he has a right to speak with a parent before questioning\nor that he may have a parent present during questioning. The answer to both is no.
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Megan's Law it is, but as it is applied in California, the offender does not have to tell the neighbors.  The police may, in some circumstances (but not all) notify the neighborhood where the offender lives and/or works.
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I would disagree with the paranoid among the crowd ("the police will get you if you complain about one of them") but to each his own...and I'm sure it has happened in some places.  \n\nCertainly you can file a complaint with the officer's agency.\n\nYou can probably also file a complaint with the prosecutor's office.\n\nYou can hire a lawyer and pursue a 1983 action.  Hope you've got buckets of money, or a generous lawyer.\n\nWhat's more important to me, and what would really make the whole issue moot, is the issue of whether or not the officer "made up false charges."  Is this your opinion?  You may not know the law well enough to make that determination.  If it's an incident that you have no personal knowledge of, you may not even have all the facts.  \n\nIt's also entirely possible that the officer relied on information given to him/her by a witness or a victim.  If someone comes to me and claims to be a rape victim, I have to give them the benefit of the doubt and begin an investigation.  Given enough probable cause to make an arrest based on my investigation, I may arrest the suspect...even though he may eventually be proven to be factually innocent.  That doesn't mean I made anything up, it simply means there was enough information to justify making an arrest...and nobody will ever tell you (nobody that knows what they're talking about) that just because an arrest was made and the suspect was later proven to be innocent, that the officer absolutely had to be wrong about the arrest.  Sometimes things come to light after the arrest that shows the suspect didn't commit the crime after all...but that does not necessarily mean the officer made anything up.\n\nDo cops lie?  Sure...I hate to think so, but I know they do, just like doctors, lawyers, judges, auto mechanics, plumbers, dope dealers and garbage collectors.  I'd like to think we take steps to weed out liars, but I'm not about to say we (as a group) never do it...just as I would never say any one particular group of people does anything.  \n\nIf this is something you'd like to talk more about in email, I'm happy to help shed some different light on it for you or help point you in the direction you might want to go (though I'm not suggesting you should only listen to what *I* say).  If you'd like to talk about it, you can send an email to my nickname at yahoo.com.\n\nNo way will I say the officer in whatever case you're talking is not lying, but I don't know what the facts are and I'm certainly hoping there's another explanation for what you seem to be claiming is dishonesty.
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I like to use..........\n\n" The bad news is your under arrest, the good news is I just saved a lot of money by switching to GIECO!!!"\n\nbut the Answer your looking for is Miranda Rights. Police do not have to read them to you however, they only have to read them if they are going to ask you questions that may incriminate you.
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Call the LAPD and find out from them.\nBetter than getting arrested or shot.\nThat's if you don't mind getting arrested or shot.
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In California I'm pretty sure it's legal. I had one for years. You could always just call the police station and ask. \n.