{"id":63670,"date":"2026-03-22T11:02:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T16:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63670"},"modified":"2026-03-22T11:02:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T16:02:41","slug":"d-haw-no-constitutional-right-to-an-adequate-police-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63670","title":{"rendered":"D.Haw.: No constitutional right to an \u201cadequate police investigation\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is no constitutional right to an \u201cadequate police investigation.\u201d Hawkes v. Katayama, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 59452 (D. Haw. Mar. 19, 2026):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201c[A]n inadequate investigation by police officers is not sufficient to state a \u00a7 1983 claim unless another recognized constitutional right is involved, such as failure to protect against discrimination.\u201d Sexual Sin de un Abdul Blue v. City of Los Angeles, No. CV 09-7573, 2010 WL 890172, at *6 (C.D. Cal. Mar. 8, 2010); see also Gomez v. Whitney, 757 F.2d 1005, 1006 (9th Cir. 1985) (\u201c[W]e can find no instance where the courts have recognized inadequate investigation as sufficient to state a civil rights claim unless there was another recognized constitutional right involved.\u201d).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no constitutional right to an \u201cadequate police investigation.\u201d Hawkes v. Katayama, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 59452 (D. Haw. Mar. 19, 2026):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63671,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63670\/revisions\/63671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}