![]() “Any state submitting now could change their mind if they change administrations or they determine it’s not a priority.” “That’s another problem with the NDI, it’s voluntary it’s not mandatory,” Becar said. The ACLU created an app to help people record police misconduct This handout image from the ACLU shows an app created to help people record police misconduct. The director of the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council told CNN the state decertifies more officers than any other state in the nation and the current NDI does not “function at the level we need it to do.” The Rhode Island POST did not respond to CNN’s request for comment. The New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice Police Training Commission told CNN “police licensure is a work in progress” in the state that the attorney general and the commission is making it a top priority. Representatives with the POST agencies in California and Hawaii told CNN their respective agencies either do not have the power to decertify officers or they simply do not have a decertifying process. Becar does not know the reason behind these states not reporting. Rhode Island, New Jersey, Hawaii, California and Georgia are the only states that don’t report decertifications. The current NDI – updated daily – will still continue operations.Ĭurrently, there are 44 states with 45 agencies – North Carolina has two – reporting decertifications to the NDI, Becar said. It will probably be another year before the new NDI is up and running, Becar said. The revamp of the NDI is looking to include “resignations and terminations for excessive of use of force where it may not be a decertification, but if officers have been accused or convicted of excessive use of force and have had due process, those things will be entered,” Becar said. ![]() ![]() Records can be found with the Peace Officers Standards and Training (POST) commissions in each state, but different state laws may prevent their release. The NDI currently contains only an officer’s name, who decertified them and the reason for the decertification, Becar said. Why sweeping police reform over the last year has largely been elusive “We went to the Department of Justice and asked for funding to create this database to try and stop these problem officers from going from to agency to agency, especially the ones that have been decertified for misconduct,” Becar told CNN, adding that it was the Bureau of Justice Assistance who provided the funds. The NDI was created in 2000 by the International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training (IADLEST), an Idaho-based non-profit dedicated to “transforming policing,” according to its Executive Director Michael N. The NDI was created to stop wandering officers Here’s a look at the NDI, what it is and its history: There’s also nothing mandating every state to contribute to it, so there are still some officers who fall through the cracks. Even some of those in the community either don’t agree with the current process of the database or simply just do not support it. It does not track officers accused of misconduct.īut the database is not public, so people in general don’t know it exists if they’re not in the law enforcement community. The NDI lists over 30,000 officer decertifications, which means states have deemed them ineligible to serve as a police officer. There is a Justice Department-funded police misconduct registry called the National Decertification Index (NDI). Goldman, Callis Family Professor of Law Emeritus at Saint Louis University School of Law. “I think they should have that same thing for law enforcement because law enforcement people can move from state to state and … have the power to use deadly force and arrest,” said Roger L. Some law enforcement experts tell CNN there needs to be greater federal oversight to track officers who have been involved in misconduct, similar to how the National Practitioner Data Bank tracks misconduct and malpractice payments for health care professionals. ![]() Currently, there is nothing stopping these officers – whom some experts called “wandering” or “second-chance” officers – from going to another state or a smaller department within the same state. ![]()
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