Police Officers that make False Reports are charged with Felonies and could face prison

A Police Office in Sacramento was arrested on a felony charge for allegedly filing a police report that was false appeared in court before a California judge for the this month.

A felony charge against Alexa Palubicki, a Sacramento Police Officer centers around a Police Encounter stop she made that allegedly captured on video in a web of lies.

“Good afternoon, your honor,” Palubicki mentioned to the decide in her Zoom courtroom look.

The courtroom look stands in stark distinction to the remainder of her regulation enforcement profession.

She sat quietly as a defendant in a felony legal case alleging she filed a false police report, resulting in an African American man’s arrest.

Regulation Enforcement Accountability Directive founder Mark T. Harris is watching the case carefully.

“It’s arduous to seek out as arduous a set of information as we now have on this case,” Harris mentioned. “This can be a very stable investigation that occurred.”

CBS13 obtained Sacramento police inside investigation paperwork from the enforcement cease Palubicki made exhibiting she advised investigators she and her associate determined to do some “proactivity,” and noticed a automotive “registered to a feminine however a male was driving. Which we felt was odd.”

The cease led to the invention of a firearm and an arrest of an African American man, through which Palubicki’s police experiences confirmed the possible trigger for the enforcement cease was suspicion of DUI, a declare the Sacramento County District lawyer alleges she knowingly lied about.

“They went to the tip of the story, after which rationalized their method backward. That’s not the way in which the structure works,” Harris mentioned.

An inside investigation reveals Palubicki by no means filed necessary reporting paperwork per the Racial and Id Profiling Act.

“Sadly, many in regulation enforcement deal with black pores and skin as if it’s the foundation for possible trigger, for cease and or arrest, and that’s flawed and I believe that’s what occurred right here,” Harris mentioned.

Former Sacramento Sheriff John McGinness says any officer caught mendacity about possible trigger is at all times placing their profession in jeopardy.

“When you lie, the subsequent phrase is die,” McGinness mentioned. “Professionally you die, you’re completed together with your profession.”

A legal case over possible trigger is placing this officer within the authorized struggle of her life.

It was Palubicki’s fellow officers who introduced this case to the Sacramento Police Division’s consideration.

She didn’t enter a plea Monday.