The leaks reveal contracts between police and city authorities to guarantee disciplinary records and complaints made against officers are kept secret or destroyed.
One officer had seven lawsuits against him that were settled, yet was not removed the force.
A group of 124 Chicago police officers has cost the city $34 million in misconduct settlements since 2009, according to a newspaper report. While the officers represent a fraction of the police force's roughly 12,000 officers, they are identified in nearly a third of the
Some officers are permitted to quietly resign and never even face decertification. Others are able to keep working because departments may not be required to report all misdeeds to a state police standards commission, or they neglect to.
Law enforcement officers accused of sexual misconduct have jumped from job to job — and at times faced fresh allegations that include raping women — because of a tattered network of laws and lax screening that allowed them to stay on the beat. A yearlong Associated Press investigation into sex abuse by cops, jail guards, deputies and other state
The Minneapolis Police Department has made national headlines recently for a few separate incidents of police misconduct.
The Minneapolis Police Department has made national headlines recently for a few separate incidents of police misconduct, specifically those involving racial slurs. Currently five officers are the subjects of Internal Affairs investigations.
