Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Jeff Merkley propose creating a national database of cops with a record of misconduct

by Slygirl997

43 comments

  1. Republicans will fight this to the end. They love adding power to the powerful and micromanaging the powerless

  2. lol. I can actually feel cops getting angry about this. They love having zero accountability

  4. > Human Rights Watch called for such a database more than two decades ago, arguing that a misconduct tracking system would help “prevent officers who have committed abuses and have been dismissed from one department from being hired as law enforcement officers elsewhere.”

    But, I don’t think that will necessarily stop departments from hiring the bad cops on such a list. What if the locals that would use these data to hold police departments accountable are fine with racist bully cops? Would the police unions bringing up privacy or “those records were purged” issues take people off the database?

    This database is a good idea, but, there should be some national standard that disqualifies people from being cops if they’re on it.

  5. I think this is great as long as there is an appeals process so good cops don’t get unfairly targeted.

  6. Sounds similar to the CDL clearinghouse. It tracks driver drug and alcohol violations across state lines.

  7. The database is probably a better idea than “defund the police”.

  8. Sounds like something that should have happened 25 years ago

  10. Police unions gonna shoot this down. It would be like a national database on guns. GOP- The dems wanna put chips in people. I can hear it now.

  12. Love seeing Sen Warren’s name in the headlines. Should’ve been our nominee but no, Democrats have no freakin cojones

  13. Would make weeding out the good cops a lot easier for police departments. You know, make sure they don’t hire any of these lib cops who believe in things like de-escalation.

  16. Why the hell is this not already a thing?
    We have a database of DNA, a database for sex offenders, hell a database for every one with a driver’s license.
    Cops charged with crimes should for sure have their own data base.

  17. How about requiring a license and they get points against it for infractions.

  19. Awesome to do. Most corrupt and incompetent cops just get hired elsewhere.

  20. As a private citizen, what’s stopping me from throwing up a site to do this and then just vetting entries as they’re submitted with appropriate documentation?

  21. Won’t have to worry about it long. Soon there won’t be any anyway. In my city, we’ve got more people retiring than are applying. Not accepted to the police academy, but even fucking APPLYING.

  22. I agree with this in theory but ultimately would prefer DOJ being more aggressive charging officers for violating citizens civil rights and investigating local govts that protect those officers. More lists of names to read at committee hearings won’t make a difference.

  23. Long overdue and desperately needed

    Which is likely why it will never actually happen

  25. Then police departments will just refuse to cooperate and report like they have in the past

  30. I bet the 99% of “good” cops support this! Yeah right.

  32. The only cops that need to be worried or upset are the ones with a history of misconduct. Don’t have a history of being a bad police officer? You won’t be in the database.

  34. Well I mean if we have a national and state data bases of medical professionals who fuck up, cops seem pretty logical.

  36. Is there an updated article, or am I supposed to pretend an article from June 2020 is at the forefront of cutting edge political relevance. I mean, I loved the idea then, and still think it’s a good idea now… but the title is misleading. Should be “proposed”, lol

  37. I’m all for it. I’m in Florida, where they all like to relocate.

  39. Good luck getting everyone to cooperate. the US is basically 50 smaller countries in a trench coat

  40. AI would be great for this, crawl the internet for stories in local papers looking for keywords, then creating a database linking to the stories searchable by name and municipality.

  42. Just put them all in… they can get off the list in 10 years for good behavior.

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