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- How We Tracked Down Thousands of Police Misconduct Files
How We Tracked Down Thousands of Police Misconduct Files Freedom of Information requests led to the discovery of varied offenses by officers around New York State
- Resource spotlight: Data projects tracking police misconduct . . .
This briefing spotlights just a few projects that illustrate how public records can be used to investigate and track police misconduct, discipline, and employment, and in turn, how these projects can put pressure on law enforcement agencies to improve their practices and decisions
- Loose rules let state police hand out lax penalties for . . .
How a misconduct complaint is investigated, and any resulting discipline, is discretionary All of these officers remained on the job More: How we tracked down thousands of police misconduct files
- Police Reform Action Brief: National Police Misconduct Database
The database contains disciplinary investigation information for nearly 4,000 police oficers who have had at least one substantiated allegation of misconduct 7 With access to data from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, a recent study examined police misconduct
- How we tracked down thousands of police misconduct files
I’ve spent the past two and a half years requesting and reviewing more than 10,000 misconduct files from New York State’s roughly 500 police agencies The work has been as tedious as it probably sounds But it has also contributed to a new era of transparency around policing These files, many of which had never been reviewed, reveal the systems through which police departments have
- How The Chicago Reporter Made ‘Settling for Misconduct’
We suspected—and data later demonstrated—that police misconduct cases disproportionately occurred in neighborhoods that are majority black or Hispanic Early in the research process, tracking down the cases proved to be the easy part The city Law Department posts lists of payments made as a result of judgment and settlements
- National Law Enforcement Accountability Database, which . . .
WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice has shut down the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database, a federal misconduct tracking system that was intended to prevent officers with disciplinary records from being rehired by other agencies, the Washington Post reported
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