A duty to complain?

Something that I've heard come up among people that I've interviewed and people that I haven't interviewed is the idea that filing a complaint against the CPD doesn't do anything. I can see why someone would say that.

What I didn't expect is that these folks would then say that they and other should file complaints against the CPD anyways.

I've picked up on two strains of this idea. The first one, my preceptor reminded me, was a lot like what people saw in the #MeToo movement. The first person to call out a sexual predator may not be believed, but if enough women come forward with similar allegations about the same individual, people will eventually realize that the victims were right, and justice will be served.

Someone I was interviewing framed it a little differently. I don't have their quote, but they said something like "If all of us file complaints, then eventually the city has to do something about it." This spin on the complaint-filing process makes it seem a lot more like voting, which is even more interesting since I just had to read an article written in 2000 by Loren Lomasky and Geoffrey Brennan from the Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation called "Is there a Duty to Vote?" that basically says there isn't a reason people should vote unless they enjoy it.

If any of this is going to make it into the final cut of this thesis, I'll need to figure out a way to compare and contrast these social "duties" and find something that makes sense.