Cast-Out Police Officers Are Often Hired in Other Cities

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Williams writes: "There is no comprehensive, national system for weeding out problem officers. If there were, such hires would not happen, criminologists and law enforcement officials say."

At a 2014 news conference, Deputy Chief Ed Tomba of the Cleveland police showed video of the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. The officer who shot him had a troubled work history. (photo: Mark Duncan/AP)

Cast-Out Police Officers Are Often Hired in Other Cities

By Timothy Williams, The New York Times

11 September 16

s a police officer in a small Oregon town in 2004, Sean Sullivan was caught kissing a 10-year-old girl on the mouth.

Mr. Sullivan�s sentence barred him from taking another job as a police officer.

But three months later, in August 2005, Mr. Sullivan was hired, after a cursory check, not just as a police officer on another force but as the police chief. As the head of the department in Cedar Vale, Kan., according to court records and law enforcement officials, he was again investigated for a suspected sexual relationship with a girl and eventually convicted on charges that included burglary and criminal conspiracy.

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