California’s criminal cops: A six-month investigation found more than eighty law enforcement officers with rap sheets still employed today

Some fantastic investigative reporting. From the about the project page:

In early 2019, reporters from the Investigative Reporting Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism obtained a list of criminal convictions from the past decade of nearly 12,000 current or former law enforcement officers and people who applied to be in law enforcement. The records — provided by the state’s Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training in response to a Public Records Act request — didn’t indicate which individuals on the list actually worked in law enforcement nor the departments where they were employed.

Instead of providing any more information, POST referred the reporters to state Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s office, which wrote the reporters a letter calling the release of the records “inadvertent” and indicating mere possession of the document was a crime. The letter instructed the reporters to destroy the list or face legal action.

And some follow-on articles:

California’s criminal police officers include 20 convicted of murder

These California police officers were charged with brutalizing loved ones. So why are so many still carrying a gun?

DUI is the most common offense among California police officers