Police Accountability Project Archives - Page 3 of 3

Police misconduct records secret, hard to access

Police misconduct records are either secret or difficult to access in a majority of states — 32 of them.

Police officers who abuse citizens usually escape punishment because of an array of legal doctrines that stack the law.

Eighty-one Chicago police officers lost their badges over the past 20 years, but only after being investigated for 1,706.