The Intercept
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Out of 54 officers involved in 14 high-profile killings that spurred Black Lives Matter protests in the last nine years , only 10 had their certifications or licenses revoked as a matter of disciplinary action.
Experts have described the revocation of police licenses as a “viable remedy” for misconduct, but it can be difficult to attain.
209 officers are decertified in the United States each month .
That figure represents a range of on- and off-duty misconduct and is a tiny fraction of the nation’s 900,000 law enforcement agents.
Some officers who lose their jobs due to misconduct are able to be rehired elsewhere.
Many officers facing misconduct allegations preemptively resign to evade disciplinary record.
Timothy Loehmann , the Cleveland police officer who shot 12-year-old Rice in November 2014 , got a job last year in Tioga , Pennsylvania .
Brown’s mother Lezley McSpadden-Head : “What they are doing is leaving officers to commit excessive force in the wild, to inflict their danger upon the rest of us”.
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