Editorial: This California bill would stop bad cops from bouncing from city to city (via latimesopinion)
In California, as in much of the nation, an officer fired for misconduct can often get a job at the police department across town or in the next county. There are about 18,000 law enforcement agencies in the United States, few of which have both the capacity and the desire to track down every necessary detail of their applicants’ service records.
, but after quickly passing the Democratic-controlled House, the bill stalled in the Republican-majority Senate.
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