Police Complaint

Parties

1. This complaint is made by Katherine Coral Konitzer of the City of Toronto.

2. This complaint is made against certain individuals of the 22 Division police force located in Toronto (Etobicoke),
notably Detective Lhawang Jongdong (badge #8342) of the Toronto Police Service (TPS).

Facts

3. On or about March 14, 2016, I reported to 14 Division in Toronto that Alexander Knapik-Levert (“Alex”) (DOB
1987/08/13), a man I was briefly with and from whom I had escaped an abusive relationship, was continuing to
harass and threaten me via text messaging, email, and phone calls (GO# TP 2016-444036), even creating new
email addresses and phone numbers for the purposes of communication with me that blocking did little to stop. I
brought my cell phone and laptop to show evidence of the claims I was making, which an officer took photographs
of. I also mentioned to a female officer that I was raped, but uncertain of pressing charges due to the low
conviction rate for the crime and the lack of physical evidence (it would be hard to prove in court vs actual texts
and emails). I also feared retaliation; Alex’s family had resources where I did not. I was afraid for my life, and
between staying at my downtown apartment, was at my parents’ home in Mississauga most days. I was forced to
change my phone number and stay off social media (Facebook) because of his stalking my whereabouts. I had
already made plans to move to another province, change my name, and knew exactly what to ask for appropriate
sentencing because I was aware of Alex’s violent and obsessive nature.

4. On March 16, 2016, Alex entered into a Recognizance of Bail regarding charges laid against him for criminal
harassment, including multiple charges of threatening death and bodily harm against me. That recognizance
included a condition requiring Alex to “not contact or communicate in any way either directly or indirectly, by any
physical, electronic or other means” with either myself or my family. That recognizance also included a condition
requiring Alex to “not possess or use any computers or any other device that has access to the Internet or other
digital network.” That recognizance also included a condition requiring Alex to “not be within 300 meters of any
place” where he knew me or my family to live, work, go to school, frequent or any place he knew me or my family
to be (Case/File No. 4811-998-16-15001948-00).

5. On or shortly after March 29, 2016, I received a letter from the Victims and Vulnerable Persons Division of the
Ministry of the Attorney General regarding their Victim/Witness Assistance Program. That letter advised me that
the Crown Attorney’s office was prosecuting Alex. Enclosed with that letter was a Notice of Release Conditions
that advised me to call the police immediately if I became aware that Alex was not following the conditions of his
court order/rules of the recognizance.

6. On or about April 8, 2016 I went to the Victim Witness office at The Old Court for advice on what to do because I
was aware of Alex violating his bail conditions/court order for quite some time now by using the internet to
 continue his harassment and slander campaign. I was informed to dial 9-1-1 from the location, and the operator
instructed me to stand outside at the top of the stairs outside the building. I saw many police vehicles drive by.
After waiting where I was instructed to be a full hour, I phoned 9-1-1 again and asked how long it normally takes
for cop cars to arrive, because a dispatch request and confirmation was made an hour ago and my hands were cold.
I was waiting outside the whole time so I would not miss the officer and he/she would not miss me. I did not want
to get in trouble by going inside/changing locations and missing the officer; I did as I was instructed, which was to
stand on top of the stairs so I would be seen. The dispatcher asked for my name, then said no such call was made,
and there were no dispatches to The Old Court. I disagreed with the officer, insisted that there was a mistake, and
to please check again. After denying me again that no call or dispatch was in the system, I retorted angrily “then
someone fucked up”. The dispatcher was sympathetic but ultimately concluded there was no dispatch request. I
then asked whether I could go home, because I did not want to get in trouble for leaving if an officer was indeed on
their way. The operator said I could. Momentary after the dispatcher asked for my name again and confirmed
indeed that, yes, a dispatch request was made for me, and they had already left 15 minutes ago. About 15 minutes
later, a police car arrived. In total, it took almost 1.5 hours for a cruiser located mere blocks away to arrive. This
should never happen in any circumstance, but particularly to a 9-1-1 call of a disturbed, obsessive and violent
individual breaching his bail conditions.

7. Inside Old City Hall (“The Old Court”) I reported to the attending officers police (PC Rossi, badge #11161, and
PC Van Hee, badge #10991, of 52 Division) that I had become aware of Alexander’s internet activity concerning
myself, namely a 300 page PDF document that contained writings that included my name and images of myself,
including those of family members. It included messages to me as well as personal references and photographs of
myself that Alex personally took with his own camera (GO# TP 2016-597750), thus violating his bail conditions.
Alex spammed this document onto internet forums and websites he had long frequented using usernames he long
had, and went further by creating multiple Twitter and Facebook accounts to spread the document further. It was
also evidence of his having used a computer or other device with access to the Internet or other digital network.
PC Rossi asked me to me to email him a copy of this pdf, which I did while we were inside Old City Hall. He
confirmed he received it, and then I went home. I did not hear back.

8. Alexander continued violating his bail conditions. More content and images were uploaded onto the internet by
Alex, including other females, such as a woman he was previously convicted of raping and forcibly confining. One
image posted was of myself in the process of changing clothing, which I was not aware he took or gave consent to..
Alex had posted this image in a “post your sluts” thread on a forum called tribalwar.com which he long-frequented.
Alexander also scouted nude images of women that resembled me to spam on the web (in particular forums he was
aware I went on due to Alex monitoring my web history), slandered to others that I took these photographs myself
and was in the sex trade, and encouraged others to enjoy this “revenge porn”. I sent links of this activity (e.g. more
forum and screenshot evidence) to the police; nothing was done.

9. Alexander also posted images of other women in his life, including one he raped, and another woman who died in
a car crash that went to the same high school as me that he claimed I killed for being ‘an arch rival’. Numerous
 defamatory statements were made about myself and other females. He made a website for this purpose, which I
forwarded to my investigators at 22 Division of the Toronto Police. Nothing was done.

10. On or about April 22, 2016, I sent an email message to b90364@torontopolice.on.ca for updates to the
information I provided and requested that my report be taken seriously. I also requested information on filing a
police complaint and contact information for someone who could help me. I made phone calls to 22 Division and
would receive comments questioning “Why am I even looking at this stuff”, although I was merely informing them
about a breach in the court order, as was in my rights and what I was instructed to do by Victim Services. 22
Division would infer it was suspicious of me, someone who has a restraining order against an individual, to be
aware and ‘looking at this stuff,’ although it was done deliberately where I would be aware of it and could not
avoid seeing it. That officers chose to ignore a court order and bully a domestic violence seeking security and
protection was morally wrong and inappropriate from a professional standpoint.

11. I had emailed Toronto Police multiple times with attachments of screenshots and usernames, at times responding
as requested by them. One of the screenshots I emailed included Alex saying he would break my nose. Another
said he would break my teeth. He bragged how lawyers like Marie Henein (who his mother previously hired to
fight an earlier rape charge) ‘eat people like me for breakfast’. I never heard back from Toronto Police.

12. Alexander’s web activity was becoming more manic and destructive; nothing was being done to stop him. I was
afraid to leave my house. I was alternating addresses - afraid of staying in my downtown address (Alexander
publically shared the name of my building [the Frontenac] and stated he would use brass knuckles to break my
teeth -- I provided a screenshot of this to TPS; nothing was done). I was afraid of staying at my parents’ home
because he was aware of the address there too. I began spending nights in my grandmother’s apartment in
Etobicoke. This too was unsafe, however, since I told Alex about her passing away and he asked what the nearest
intersection of the building was. He said one day we could live there together. The lack of police action and follow
up on his breaching his court order did not leave me with a safe place to live. My mental health problems
exacerbated.

13. On or about September 16, 2016, I again reported to police that Alex had posted messages in an online forum that
were directed at me, contrary to his recognizance conditions. Police again did not take my report seriously or
investigate.

14. On or about November 24, 2016, I again reported to police (PC Marland Thompson, badge #8305, and PC
Bhandari, badge #9829) that Alex had again posted in an online forum further messages/information directed at me,
contrary to his recognizance conditions (GO# TP 2016-2089464).

15. On or about December 29, 2016, I sent an email message to DC Arevalo and attached further evidence of Alex’s
violations of his recognizance conditions. She asked for further information which I provided. Communication
ended abruptly shortly thereafter. It is my belief Detective Lhawang Jongdong, my then assigned investigator,
advised her to end communications with me.
16. In February 2017, I had an email conversation with Det. Jongdong in which my reports were again dismissed.

17. In February and March 2017, I sent a few emails to Det. Jongdong explaining that I had contacted police when I
became aware of Alex’s breaches of his recognizance conditions, as I had been advised to do, and that police had
dismissed my reports. I asked Det. Jongdong to explain some of the comments he had made to me and questions he
had asked me during the course of my interactions with him. When I met him he first asked me my name, and then
what medication I was on; I had to name the explanations and explain what they were for, which was demeaning
and discriminatory. He was supposed to contact me in response to screenshots and images visiting officers
instructed me to put on a USB drive, but never did. I waited because he was on a month-long vacation, and
assigned alternate detectives at Division 22 did not want to deal with me; I once phoned and asked if there was
anyone there that could help me, and the operator told me “no”.

18. When I advised Det. Jongdong about an incident where I fled from Alexander while in Cuba due to his abuse and
predation, his sole comment was “Who paid for the vacation?” But I didn’t want to go on this vacation, and called
the travel agency the morning of to get him his money back since Alex wouldn’t accept my saying I wasn’t going
and for him to cancel. I paid hundreds of dollars fleeing in a cab and finding alternate accommodations to escape
Alex. Det. Jongdong was an investigator but failed to be impartial in the matter, and showed bias. When I advised
Det. Jongdong about Alex’s mental illness (he had been hospitalized against his will before, and prescribed
medications he never took), again, Det. Jongdong was incredulous. When I further advised Det. Jongdong about
Alex’s mental illness and a doctor’s appointment to which I took Alex, he asked rhetorically ‘are you a doctor?’.
However Det. Jongdong was neither a doctor nor psychiatrist, and felt adequate to ask me about my medication
and judge my demeanour.

19. I contacted Det. Jongdong again when I found the 300 page pdf Alexander uploaded printed as a book, in a
neighborhood bookstore. When I explained how I ran away from Alex on during a vacation in Cuba because of his
abuse and predation, his sole comment was “And who paid for it”. When I showed Det. Jongdong the book with
the receipt proving the day I went, and explained the manner in which I found it he said he did not believe “my
story”. I many months prior emailed Toronto Police accompanying screenshots of this printed book, as well as
Alex’s numerous threats to dispatch this book. Nothing was done.

20. On or about March 22, 2017, I followed up on a phone conversation with Det. Jongdong by sending a further email
message to Det. Jongdong asking why my reports were not being taken seriously, why I was not being believed,
and why I was being repeatedly dismissed. I also asked in that message why Det. Jongdong had accused me in our
phone conversation of “police shopping.”

21. On or about March 24, I had a meeting with Det. Jongdong, again. The day prior Alexander’s mother phoned the
police on him because of his erratic behaviour, though his nature was something I already notified 22 Division of
and they subsequently, repeatedly, ignored. At this point Det. Jongdong explained, on the day of trial (March 27
2017) all I had to do was be respectful to the judge and inform him that the police ‘knew’ Alex was breaking his
bail conditions. The problem was that Det. Jongdong, as my latest investigator, never communicated the updated
 information to my lawyer/prosecution, who knew nothing about his repeatedly bail breaches or the book. I would
appear like a crazy person making claims of what police really thought and knew to a judge, on my own, that
prosecution knew nothing about. Why would the judge take my side based on nothing but my word, particularly if
I failed to convince anyone else? It should have been Det. Jongdong there in court with me to inform the judge of
the updated information, particularly because he didn’t update the prosecution with evidence I struggled to have
looked at seriously. Det. Jongdong further remarked that I was ‘smarter’ than Alex’s other victims for getting out
sooner. I find this not only repugnant and ignorant (often victims of domestic violence are vulnerable, have
nowhere to go and no one to help them which is why they are targets in the first place, and know they will face
reprisal or death if they leave) but also especially inappropriate and unprofessional for an investigator assigned to
work with victims of domestic violence.

22. The trial was a show centered on Alexander. My lawyer (prosecution) was silent while his lawyer had the stage.
There were numerous incidences where my lawyer could object, but did not because division 22 instructed her to
be quiet.. At one point the judge commented Alexander had a ‘bright future’, although I was the one with a
completed BA and Alexander dropped out his first year. A suspended sentence had been decided on without my
input, without automatic 1 year probation. An accurate victim statement I previously provided was rejected
because the claims were not yet ‘proven’, although 22 Division refused to investigate my claims or pass them on to
the prosecuting lawyer. The victim statement I was ‘allowed’ to submit was lite, and heavily censored.

23. On or shortly after March 28, 2017, I received a letter from a Probation and Parole Officer/Conditional Sentence
Supervisor of the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services advising me that Alex was convicted
on March 27, 2017, of criminal harassment and uttering death threats. That letter advised that Alex was given a
suspended sentence and a one-year probation order, which included conditions requiring Alex to “not contact or
communicate in any way, either directly or indirectly, by any physical, electronic or other means” with me, and to
“not be within 300 metres of any place” where he knew me to live, work, go to school, frequent or any place he
knew me to be. That letter advised me to contact police and then notify the parole officer if I became aware that
Alex was not following those conditions. This advisory seemed foolhardy and useless to me because I had already
communicated with police many times for nearly a year, only to be ignored and treated like a pest. I did not trust
going to the police, who I felt had been bending over backwards to protect Alexander, an individual they already
knew was a previously convicted rapist and other women had reported on. I did call the probation office anyway to
explain his continued violations, who directed me to contact the police. I explained to them that police were
ignoring me, and they did not update his file with the new information they knew. Who could I talk to and trust?
Wouldn’t it just appear that I was making false claims if previous ‘investigated’ claims were found to be without
merit?

24. On or about April 29, 2018, I forwarded Det. Jongdong an email message that Alexander sent me the previous day.
I asked Det. Jongdong to please do something. I have received no response from Det. Jongdong.

Complaint
 25. Neglect of duty. My repeated complaints of Alexander’s violation of his recognizance conditions were not taken
seriously or properly investigated despite substantial. 22 Division dismissed my reports and failed to investigate.

26. Neglect of duty. Police failed to obey a court order.

27. Discreditable conduct. As a victim of domestic violence I was treated with disrespect, condescension and contempt,
and experienced discriminatory treatment due to my disability.

28. Deceit and corrupt practice. I was lied to by investigators and not given appropriate remedy. The FOIA documents
contained facts that were not true (e.g. I “the complainant” declined to press charges)

29. The police have failed to protect me from ongoing harassment and abuse. I was put in danger despite the
conditions of his recognizance and his clear violation of those conditions. This complaint is about the conduct of
officers pursuant to s. 58(1)(b) of the Police Services Act.

30. I hereby request a full investigation of this complaint and the production of a written report upon completion of
that investigation.

_____________________________ ________________________
Katherine Konitzer Date