Ferguson officer Darren Wilson in talks to resign from police force, sources say

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60. I thought police officers had to write their own reports of shootings, arrests, etc. as SOP??

Here's an example of a previous incident report Wilson wrote:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/246727189/Ferguson-police-incident-report-Darren-Wilson-arrests-Mike-Arman

For matters of prosecution and transparency, it is essential for cops to write incident reports of all the facts, eyewitness/victim accounts and the procedures the cops followed ASAP -- It does no good to write the report days later or weeks later...Otherwise it would be damn near impossible to ever convict anyone...

And in this case, a report is needed so there is an "official" account of the events which would hold up to scrutiny in the one-in-a-billion chance that Wilson is actually telling the truth...Otherwise, the official story would rightly get torn apart pretty easily...

With no report from Wilson, it's pretty easy to fudge or change details whenever it's convenient, since the public and media by nature have very short memories and attention spans...And there is growing evidence that's what the Ferguson PD has been doing...