Dallas, Texas
Dallas police commanders have issued a written reprimand to a department spokeswoman accused of flashing a gun at a motorist in an off-duty road rage incident in Allen last year.
Senior Cpl. Janice Crowther remained in her current assignment Friday as a police spokesperson, one of the most publicly visible assignments in the 3,600-member police force. It is unclear if she may be transferred to a different unit in the near future.
Crowther has denied flashing her gun and Allen police declined to charge her in the case. Dallas police officials did not rule on whether Crowther flashed a gun, but said she violated a departmental rule that states, “No employee, when acting outside the course and scope of his duties, shall precipitate, cause, or escalate a disturbance or police incident to his discredit.”
Crowther did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A written reprimand is the most serious form of documented discipline and remains in an officer’s file permanently.
The October incident in Allen followed a similar case in which she was accused of flashing a gun at another motorist six years earlier while off duty and driving north of Dallas, according to records obtained by The Dallas Morning News.
Crowther, 49, was also accused of berating and threatening a NorthPark Center security officer in an incident in the mall parking lot in 2002, according to the records, which were obtained in response to Public Information Act requests.
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