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Resident tells council police initially said no incident report existed but a report was later found
Summary
Tim Dahmer, a Cannon Falls resident, told the council officers initially said there was no incident number for a recent police response but that an incident report later existed; he said he discussed the matter with Chief McCormick and urged improved communication and accountability.
Tim Dahmer told the Cannon Falls City Council during public input that he sought a case number after a police response at a McDonald’s and was first told there was no incident report.
"I asked for the case number. They said it's not there is no incident number," Dahmer said, adding that when he later checked there was an incident report. He told the council he spoke with Chief McCormick and said that, according to his conversation, the chief told him officers should have provided the report.
Dahmer framed his comment as a matter of accountability: "We hear it all the time about accountability in communities ... To me, it's a simple acronym. I seek IK. So where's the integrity?" (speaker paraphrase). The presiding official (speaker 1) thanked Dahmer after his remarks.
The record does not show a formal council response or a formal investigation launched at the meeting. The council's public-input procedures, read earlier in the meeting, note the council "will not generally act on issues raised by the public input, but may choose to schedule consideration of the item on a future agenda." Chief McCormick was asked to speak at the meeting but the remarks recorded from the police department focused on summer and fair preparations rather than addressing Dahmer's specific complaint.
The council did not schedule follow-up action on the record during this session.
