The problem with such dynamic data is that it is out of date as soon as it is released.
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Might be good to have them published. The benefit being: police depts would have to support the stigmata. It could make police depts less insular.
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Veterinarians in CA are required to disclose any conviction at license renewal (every 2 years), and anyone can look up disciplinary actions.
Why in fuckās sake should it be any less stringent for people who literally have a license to use firearms in publicā¦
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Especially considering how often police crimes are swept under the rug as wellā¦
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List of Cops Who Arenāt Criminals:
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Redundant.
Hopefully one of these folks does their civic duty and gives it to a leak site.
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These arenāt administrative disciplinary actions from a professional association, these are criminal convictions.
Since when arenāt criminal convictions part of the public record?
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Judicial elections are important yāall. Part Eleventy.
Just a reminder for CA residents, his name is Xavier Becerra.
(800) 952-5225
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Since police unions have decided that cops should be given more rights and fewer obligations than normal civilians.
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Sure, Iāve got a post-it handy.
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How about some music with that?
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The cops arenāt going to be able to keep this under wraps. A state judge has already ruled that the disclosure law is retroactive.
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Money is speech.
However, printed lists of LEO malfeasance is TOP SECRET ILLEGAL
Wait, 12,000 over 10 years? Man that seems like a lot.
Currently there is just under 80,000 actual cops in CA, at he city, state, county levels. (not including staff, etc) Actually I say currently, but that number is old. But let us just use that. And over 10 years people come and go, so lets just double that number to 160,000 That means 7.5% of CA cops have been convicted of something. That seems really freaking highā¦ Until you consider about 8% of the US population has a felony conviction, and about 30% have a criminal record. I canāt find the percentage for convictions in general (misdemeanor or felony). Still, I guess it works out to about the same size as the general population.
Weāre a nation of bad girls and boys 
I applaud your meticulous research!
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About 3,500 names on the list appear to match the names of police officers in state personnel databases, and about 2,250 of those have been on the force within the last five years.
There are around 78,500 cops in CA (2017). So 3,500 convictions / 78,500 CA cops = about 4.4% of CA cops are convicted criminals (assuming average CA populationās 65% recidivism also applies).
Related, police integrity data was not being recorded/provided by any publicly scrutinized government entity. For example, this 2016 first of itās kind DOJ-funded study had to rely only on arrest notices that happened to make the news.
There are no comprehensive statistics available on problems with police integrity, and no
government entity collects data on all criminal arrests of law enforcement officers in the United
States. Police crimes are those crimes committed by sworn law enforcement officers with the
general powers of arrest. These crimes can occur while the officer is either on- or off-duty and
include offenses committed by officers employed by state and local law enforcement agencies.
This study provides a wealth of data on a phenomena that relates directly to police integrityā
data that previously did not exist in any useable format.
I canāt find data on general CA resident conviction %, but there is data for arrests. Via HuffPo:
āThere are are roughly 750,000 sworn local and state law enforcement officers in the U.S., according to a [recent count by the Department of Justice, and Stinsonās data estimates the rate of arrest for officers during the years of his study is 1.7 per 100,000 [officers]. As a comparison, the approximate rate of arrest of civilians in the U.S. is around 3,888 per 100,000 people, according to FBI Uniform Crime Report data.ā
Is that the blue wall of silence in action? From the FOIAād SB 1421 data in California, the officer conviction number is actually 4,117 per 100,000. Again thatās convictions, not arrests.
So what do we know about cops arresting other cops? Also from the DOJ study:
There were 960 cases of police DUI (driving under the influence) arrests. These police
DUI arrest cases largely provide examples of officers who have lost their exemption from law enforcement. That is to say, state and local sworn law enforcement officers do not typically arrest other sworn law enforcement officers, especially for drunk driving. In many of the police DUI arrest cases in this study, however, the drunk driving officer did something in terms of the
incident events that led to being arrested. For example, many of the police DUI arrest cases
involved traffic accidents (51%) often resulting in victim injury (24.1%) or fatalities (4%).
Arrested officers are known to have lost their jobs as sworn law enforcement officers in less than
one-third (29.8%) of the police DUI arrest cases.
I suppose it is possible a higher % of CA cops are convicted criminals because they are known by and interact more with other non-dirty law enforcement. If you believe that, I have a thin blue bridge for sale.
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