darcy ann ended up withdrawing her complaint. >> "i didn't feel protected.r i went to the police station to make another statement, i asked and nobody told me anything. i was very shaken and thinking they didn't believe me." >> reporter: within two months, carrick was preparing to return to full duties, armed against. that should never have happened. from our research into the met's protocol for handling misconduct cases, darcy ann's allegations should have been investigated further despite her withdrawing the complaint and the officers assigned to the case would have had access to a searchable database that logged at least one previous incident in which carrick was violent toward a woman. it happened five months before. in september 2019, a neighbor reported they had seen carrick grabbing a woman by the neck during a domestic incident in hartford sure. police told us they sent a crime report to the department handling complaints against officers known as the directorate of professional standards or the dps. now, according to the dps' own guidelines, an alle