The link in the article is 404. Anyone have a good URL for the database?
JoplinSC742 on
There’s around 700,00 cops in the nation, so that’s about 12% of cops, or over 1/10 (17/140 to be exact). This means on the low end you have a 1/10 chance of interacting with a dirty cop.
Adventurous_Test_296 on
An investigation is one thing. A finding of guilt, termination and/or prosecution is another. The latter should be public, IMO.
def_indiff on
While I’m all for exposing cops, this article is from 2019
dataistimesensative on
It seems like these are the people ICE is hiring.
fuck-nazi on
For those too lazy to read, or for those who want to blow this out of proportion in order to fuel the outrage economy.
Most misconduct involves routine infractions, but the records reveal tens of thousands of cases of serious misconduct and abuse.
They include 22,924 investigations of officers using excessive force, 3,145 allegations of rape, child molestation and other sexual misconduct and 2,307 cases of domestic violence by officers.
Dishonesty is a frequent problem.
The records document at least 2,227 instances of perjury, tampering with evidence or witnesses or falsifying reports.
There were 418 reports of officers obstructing investigations, most often when they or someone they knew were targets.
Less than 10% of officers in most police forces get investigated for misconduct. Yet some officers are consistently under investigation.
Nearly 2,500 have been investigated on 10 or more charges. Twenty faced 100 or more allegations yet kept their badge for years.
ChaoticSenior on
This is only the ones that have been investigated. There are far more dirty cops than this.
Possible-Tangelo9344 on
To me it’s interesting the states that decertify the most vs the ones that don’t seem to address it. But, I know states like California have strong employee rights and it’s hard to fire cops and keep them fired there.
Whereas, in my state (NC) the state is much stricter on it; any time an officer leaves a department the state has to be notified if they were under investigation or any allegations or even suspicions, past IA investigations, etc. that might be justification for them to lose their certification, so there’s much less hopping from city to city.
rocket-lawn-chair on
You know why I don’t trust cops? Cause I went to high school with Tim Loehmann and he was an idiot. But some other cop decided he could handle a gun.
MikeThrowAway47 on
Now you can read their records.
DataPage does not exist. (Caspio Bridge error) (50501)
ohshesthatone on
This ratio is higher than that of immigrants who are detained by ICE with criminal records within the last year, I believe.
BigB_44 on
Now that a rabbit hole that would be bad for my mental health… ahh screw it lol
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That’s all?
The link in the article is 404. Anyone have a good URL for the database?
There’s around 700,00 cops in the nation, so that’s about 12% of cops, or over 1/10 (17/140 to be exact). This means on the low end you have a 1/10 chance of interacting with a dirty cop.
An investigation is one thing. A finding of guilt, termination and/or prosecution is another. The latter should be public, IMO.
While I’m all for exposing cops, this article is from 2019
It seems like these are the people ICE is hiring.
For those too lazy to read, or for those who want to blow this out of proportion in order to fuel the outrage economy.
Most misconduct involves routine infractions, but the records reveal tens of thousands of cases of serious misconduct and abuse.
They include 22,924 investigations of officers using excessive force, 3,145 allegations of rape, child molestation and other sexual misconduct and 2,307 cases of domestic violence by officers.
Dishonesty is a frequent problem.
The records document at least 2,227 instances of perjury, tampering with evidence or witnesses or falsifying reports.
There were 418 reports of officers obstructing investigations, most often when they or someone they knew were targets.
Less than 10% of officers in most police forces get investigated for misconduct. Yet some officers are consistently under investigation.
Nearly 2,500 have been investigated on 10 or more charges. Twenty faced 100 or more allegations yet kept their badge for years.
This is only the ones that have been investigated. There are far more dirty cops than this.
To me it’s interesting the states that decertify the most vs the ones that don’t seem to address it. But, I know states like California have strong employee rights and it’s hard to fire cops and keep them fired there.
Whereas, in my state (NC) the state is much stricter on it; any time an officer leaves a department the state has to be notified if they were under investigation or any allegations or even suspicions, past IA investigations, etc. that might be justification for them to lose their certification, so there’s much less hopping from city to city.
You know why I don’t trust cops? Cause I went to high school with Tim Loehmann and he was an idiot. But some other cop decided he could handle a gun.
Now you can read their records.
DataPage does not exist. (Caspio Bridge error) (50501)
This ratio is higher than that of immigrants who are detained by ICE with criminal records within the last year, I believe.
Now that a rabbit hole that would be bad for my mental health… ahh screw it lol
This is the transparency we need