In 2017, I contributed to a project led by my colleague Kimbriell Kelly, called Fired/Rehired — in which we acquired thousands of pages of police records in order to examine what happens to so-called “bad apple” officers. In hundreds of cases, police officers who had been previously fired for misconduct were able to get their jobs back.
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Forced out over sex, drugs and other infractions, fired officers find work in other departments