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My question involves criminal law for the state of: MI

If a crime is committed against you, do you have a right to seek prosecution even if you have a criminal record or a history/reputation with a police agency.
You have the right to make the criminal complaint to the police and/or prosecutor. However, what they do with that complaint is for the most part up to them. They have the discretion to decide not to pursue a case for almost any reason, other than illegal discrimination (i.e. your race, etc).

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I ask because a serious crime was committed against me, but a detective rationalized not pursuing an investigation because she had a vendetta against me and thought the constitution didn’t protect me because I was a ‘criminal’. This didn’t sound right to me, but I don’t know how these things actually work in practice. Isn’t it ultimately the prosecutors decision to charge it not, regardless?
That detective is clearly clueless on what the Constitution says. I'm not surprised. Cops are not trained on much of Constitututional law other than what the constitution demands for search warrants, arrests, and interrogation. Go to the prosecutor to see if you might get a better response than you got from the cops.