Justice Department creates database to track misconduct records by federal law enforcement

FlyingSquid , 7 months ago

Why hasn’t this already been done for years?

Oh right, cops are above the law.

gedaliyah , 7 months ago

This seems like a very good thing (although they’ve completely defanged it).

Am I the only one thinking that this sounds like a very basic function that should have been around for decades now?

Even at my work we have photos of people who are not allowed in the building. Extremely basic stuff.

Milk_Sheikh , 7 months ago

While disappointing that this only covers federal LEO, it does do work towards departments and agencies that are more problematic or that kill people frequently. Like ICE, the entire DEA, or Bortac. So yeah, actually more oversight.

atx_aquarian , 7 months ago

Important note:

But the database, which will only contain records for federal officers and not be open to the public, falls short of the national misconduct database called for by some police reform advocates.

surewhynotlem , 7 months ago

And the best part is that they didn’t need a separate Staff and Offenders tables. It saves a ton of space.

moon , 7 months ago

I’m sure this will accomplish nothing

AnomalousBit , 7 months ago

Here go ahead and do us all a favor and change that line of code to:

valid_jurisdictions = [“federal”, “state”, “local”];

MagicShel , 7 months ago

readAccess = PUBLIC;

Sorry to change paradigms on you but you have to externalize those strings in the service. You don’t want to have to push to prod to change typos, otherwise your whole system is going to wind up hard-coded to readAccess = “pubic”;