Pushing for Real Police Oversight in Contract and on the Ballot

Illustration of a magnifying glass with an eye looking into an open filing cabinet with folders labeled "classified" and "violent conduct"

Somewhere deep in the Austin Police Department's computer database sit the personnel files of each of its approximately 1,800 officers. Those files include their disciplinary histories, which may include details about unnecessary violence or unethical conduct, Internal Affairs investigations, and the punishments meted out for misconduct. Most officers won't have much or any disciplinary history. But some, almost certainly, have multiple instances of discipline in their files.

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