thereby preventing his constitutional injury. Second, he alleges that the department failed to adequately train and supervise the officers who arrested him and that, had it done so, his injury would not have occurred. The court will address these issues seriatim. 1. Failure to Investigate Citizen Complaints A custom of failing to investigate citizen complaints may provide a basis for municipal liability if the “a policy-maker (1) had notice that a constitutional violation was likely to occur, and (2) acted with deliberate indifference to the risk.” Hernandez v. Borough of Palisades Park Police Dep’t, 58 Fed-Appx. 909, 912 (3d Cir. 2003); Beck v. City of Pittsburgh, 89 F.3d 966, 973 (3rd Cir.1996); Maiale v. Youse, No. Civ. A. 03-5450, 2004 WL 1925004, at *8 (E.D.Pa. Aug.27, 2004) (<HOLDING>). The plaintiff must also prove that the
holding that a citys failure to discipline a police officer for an isolated incident involving the alleged use of excessive force to effect an arrest did not give rise to an inference that the city had an official policy authorizing or encouraging police misconduct holding that fire departments are analogous to police departments in this respect holding that failure to furnish proper training instruction training manuals and documents to officer who injured plaintiff failure to provide adequate tests for that officer and failure to discipline that officer fell outside ttcas property waiver holding police officer is a public official holding that police departments failure to discipline an officer can create municipal liability particularly when plaintiffs injuries result from conduct similar to that alleged in prior complaints against the officer