Ever wonder what happens to corrupt &
incompetent cops who lose their jobs?
Well....
'Wandering' Cops Pose Risk to Communities: Study - The Crime Report
Excerpted...
A police officer who was previously fired for misconduct or quit under threat of being terminated is more likely to be fired again for the same reason if he or she finds another job in policing, according to a groundbreaking research study published in Yale Law Journal.
The so-called “wandering officer,” also known in some policing circles as a “gypsy cop”—although representing a relatively small percentage of overall hires by police departments—poses a risk to communities that needs more attention from federal and state policymakers, the study said.
“Even when well-intentioned—as a second chance for a hardworking cop—hiring a wandering officer is risky business,” wrote the study co-authors, Ben Grunwald of the Duke University School of Law, and John Rappaport of the University of Chicago Law School.
“Wandering officers…are fired and subjected to moral-character complaints more often than other officers [and] notably, they are riskier, by our measures, than even officers hired as rookies.”
The authors called for the creation of a”robust” national database that would record state decisions to decertify police officers for all forms of misconduct, and which in turn would be available to local agencies in other states.
According to the study, the “wandering officer” phenomenon is more common than most analysts and scholars suspect.
The researchers analyzed law enforcement records at more than 500 agencies in Florida over a 30-year period between 1986 and 2016, and found that at any given time about 1,100 “wandering officers” were re-employed across the state—roughly 3 percent of all of the state’s police officers.
Over that time period, they found that on average just under 800 of the rehired officers in any given year had been fired from earlier policing positions for misconduct. (The remainder had either voluntarily terminated their positions or were lured away for better-paying positions.)
incompetent cops who lose their jobs?
Well....
'Wandering' Cops Pose Risk to Communities: Study - The Crime Report
Excerpted...
A police officer who was previously fired for misconduct or quit under threat of being terminated is more likely to be fired again for the same reason if he or she finds another job in policing, according to a groundbreaking research study published in Yale Law Journal.
The so-called “wandering officer,” also known in some policing circles as a “gypsy cop”—although representing a relatively small percentage of overall hires by police departments—poses a risk to communities that needs more attention from federal and state policymakers, the study said.
“Even when well-intentioned—as a second chance for a hardworking cop—hiring a wandering officer is risky business,” wrote the study co-authors, Ben Grunwald of the Duke University School of Law, and John Rappaport of the University of Chicago Law School.
“Wandering officers…are fired and subjected to moral-character complaints more often than other officers [and] notably, they are riskier, by our measures, than even officers hired as rookies.”
The authors called for the creation of a”robust” national database that would record state decisions to decertify police officers for all forms of misconduct, and which in turn would be available to local agencies in other states.
According to the study, the “wandering officer” phenomenon is more common than most analysts and scholars suspect.
The researchers analyzed law enforcement records at more than 500 agencies in Florida over a 30-year period between 1986 and 2016, and found that at any given time about 1,100 “wandering officers” were re-employed across the state—roughly 3 percent of all of the state’s police officers.
Over that time period, they found that on average just under 800 of the rehired officers in any given year had been fired from earlier policing positions for misconduct. (The remainder had either voluntarily terminated their positions or were lured away for better-paying positions.)
