At least 85,000 police officers have been investigated for misconduct across the country over the last ten years but only 30,000 have been de-certified, startling new records show.
According to data compiled by USA Today, there have been more than 200,000 separate misconduct investigations launched into law enforcement officials since 2009.
The most common offense is excessive force which was to blame for 22,924 of the probes, but other alleged crimes were prevalent including 3,145 alleged cases of rape, child molestation or other sexual crimes and 2,307 alleged cases of domestic abuse.
Of the 85,000 who were investigated, at least 30,000 were de-certified.
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4 comments:
Our local Sherrif Little Lewis is crooked as the letter Z
JK much?
so out of over 200,000 complaints less then half investigated.
I feel police should only have contact if there called. Proactive policing just ruins lives. To each there own.
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