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New Police Misconduct Database Shows Thousands Of Violations, Very Little Accountability

New Police Misconduct Database Shows Thousands Of Violations, Very Little Accountability

4 years ago
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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190428/12142842105/new-police-misconduct-database-shows-thousands-violations-very-little-accountability.shtml

USA Today has scored a coup. It has partnered with police accountability nonprofit Invisible Institute to obtain misconduct records from around the nation. These paint a pretty bleak picture of American policing -- not just in the number of incidents, but in the number of incidents that go unpunished.

Public records requests have resulted in thousands of documents detailing at least 200,000 incidents of alleged misconduct, along with more than 100,000 internal investigations. The database is completely searchable and leads readers, reporters, researchers, etc. directly to the underlying documents.