Yes, there have been investigations into false reports of crimes in Georgia.
Filing a false police report in Georgia is a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in a jail and a $1,000 fine
What kind of crime? Reporting it to WHO?
Yes but it is a crime to make false statements.
Yes, it is illegal to confess to a crime you did not commit. You can be charged with perjury, false statements and obstructing an investigation.
The penalty would vary with the crime, and the crime is determined by the nature of the statement. For instance; Giving a false name or making a false police report are usually misdemeanors. On the other hand, if your statement was made to thwart a police investigation or an arrest, or you were falsely giving someone an alibi, it could amount to an Obstruction of Justice and the penalty could be more severe.
Yes, every state has some kind of law making it a crime to make a false report to the police.
You can be charged with falsely reporting a crime, and go to jail.
It can be serious, after you lodge a formal complaint your life gets restricted in many ways. You cannot give false statement otherwise it will not help them to find all links in the chain. Cooperation is needed by citizens.
You'll be given a chance to prove your innocence or non-invoilvment.
YOU, as an individual, can't do anything except cooperate with the investigation and with evidence, reason and an alibi, if you are innocent, the police will come to the same conclusion.
Making false allegations of any kind of crime is illegal. This is due to the fact that filing a false police report will result in the city wasting time on wild goose chase when they could be solving real crimes. It is usually a misdemeanor offense in most states in the US.
It depends on the circumstances - if you told him you lived on "Smith Street" and you actually live on "Jones Street" probably not much, if anything. However, if the misinformation had to do with a criminal offense investigation you could be charged with Obstruction of Justice.