85,000 Cops Investigated for Misconduct

 

USA Today found 85,000 cops who’ve been investigated for misconduct.

At least 85,000 law enforcement officers across the USA have been investigated or disciplined for misconduct over the past decade. Officers have beaten members of the public, planted evidence and used their badges to harass women. They have lied, stolen, dealt drugs, driven drunk and abused their spouses.

Records, obtained by USA Today, from thousands of state agencies, prosecutors, police departments and sheriffs, detail at least 200,000 incidents of alleged misconduct, much of it previously unreported. The records obtained include more than 110,000 internal affairs investigations by hundreds of individual departments and more than 30,000 officers who were decertified by 44 state oversight agencies.

USA Today has created an on-line database of the 30,000 decertified police officers.