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 BRONX TIMES REPORTER, A 12     PR. 30-MAY 6, 2021 BTR 
 Members of the NYPD secure the area outside Trump Tower ahead of former U.S. President  
 Donald Trump’s scheduled visit to New York, in the Manhattan borough of New York City,  
 New York, U.S., March 7, 2021.?REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs.   REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 BY BRONX TIMES 
 Would you go back to the same  
 used car salesman  to purchase a replacement  
 vehicle for the lemon that  
 died after three months of use? Or  
 re-hire the babysitter who got drunk  
 while looking after your 1 year old?  
 Or  re-let  your  apartment  to  tenants  
 who vandalized it during their fi rst  
 stay? 
 The answer is likely no. So why is  
 it that, for decades, law enforcement  
 agencies across the U.S., including  
 the NYPD, have continued to hire  
 “wandering offi cers” with prior histories  
 of trouble? 
 “Wandering  offi cers” are defi ned  
 as  police  offi cers  who  were  fi red  or  
 resigned under threat of termination  
 only to later fi nd work in law enforcement  
 elsewhere. Some were fi red  for  
 offenses as severe as pistol-whipping  
 children, sleeping with sex worker  
 informants or napping in their squad  
 cars while shootings occur. To allow  
 them  to  rejoin  the  force  smacks  of  
 madness. 
 Over the weekend, New York  
 Council Speaker Corey Johnson and  
 State Senator Brian Benjamin — both  
 of whom are seeking to become the  
 city’s next comptroller — announced  
 bills to bar disgraced police offi cers  
 from joining any other law enforcement  
 department in the state. 
 With 15,000 plus law enforcement  
 agencies  spread  across  our  50  states  
 hiring thousands of offi cers per year,  
 offi cer mobility would seem to be the  
 largest hurdle. Currently, rogue offi - 
 cers can move across state lines, and  
 then obtain certifi cation and employment  
 there. 
 But how are these bad apples not  
 being “policed,” one might justifi ably  
 ask? 
 Together with the fact that no robust  
 account of “wandering offi cers”  
 has been conducted in NYC to fi nd  
 out where the NYPD stands in this  
 rehiring  process,  a  National  Decertifi  
 cation Index that tracks the interstate  
 movement of decertifi ed  police  
 offi cers was only put in place in 2015,  
 is not sophisticatedly developed and  
 is severely underutilized. 
 We eagerly await the specifi c  details  
 of Johnson and Benjamin’s plan  
 to identify and remove unfi t offi cers  
 from our city and state. Such a plan  
 before Election Day on June 22 would  
 be ideal. 
 If  you’re  a  cop,  your  credit  score  
 must be 850, as a member of one of the  
 professions most vital to our safety  
 as citizens. The federal government  
 should doubtlessly make every effort  
 to assist all states in developing a  
 misconduct and decertifi cation database  
 — one as iron clad and national  
 as exists for medical malpractice. 
 More than ever, we need the “fi nest” 
  to protect New York. We should  
 no longer settle for anything less. 
 Far from the fi nest 
 
				
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