No US National Police Misconduct Database? Here’s Why That’s Deadly

Officers fired for abuse keep getting rehired. Even in high-profile cases.

In 2014, 12-year-old Tamir Rice was playing in a park when he was shot and killed by Cleveland police officer Timothy Loehmann. It later emerged that Loehmann had been forced to resign from a previous department due to emotional instability and incompetence. Yet, because there was no national system tracking police misconduct, he was able to get another…