The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/policing/police-misconduct/)
A team monitoring Baltimore’s compliance with a 2017 Justice Department consent decree found some improvements but a number of ongoing problems with how the scandal-plagued department investigates its officers’ conduct.
In a report issued on Wednesday, a city watchdog agency found the investigations of these complaints against the police lacking, and recommended changes to how the department classifies and handles bias allegations.
In a yearlong investigation, reporter Justin Fenton probed how Baltimore police officer Wayne Jenkins was aggressively arresting suspects while he led a criminal enterprise of fellow officers.
Four police officials in Buckeye, Az., were disciplined for improperly recording crime statistics after an extensive investigation prompted by an anonymous 2017 letter. A report found that officers falsified data to improve the city’s image.
A former Massachusetts State Police officer who confessed to embezzlement in the “Troopergate” overtime scandal was sentenced to two months in federal prison followed by three months of home detention.
Discipline cases and complaints against officers were found to have languished for as long as four years without being investigated.
Reporters from USA TODAY, its 100-plus affiliated newsrooms and the nonprofit Invisible Institute in Chicago spent more than a year creating what they call the largest collection of police misconduct records ever compiled.
Few troubled New Jersey police officers are ever outed in court, leaving the citizens they accuse of crimes unable to challenge the officers’ credibility. The state’s AG is working on a fix.
For the past seven years, one place Philadelphia police get assigned when they have been deemed unfit for regular duty is a highly sensitive, federally funded, Homeland Security intelligence-sharing center. That troubles some outside the department.
A newly formed consortium of news organizations in California is blanketing the state with records requests under the state’s new police transparency law.