The Herald-Tribune examines how Florida police officers can stay on the job despite multiple complaints, crimes.

Part 1: Florida's flawed system for policing the police.

In Florida, the process of investigating and disciplining police officers and prison guards is flawed at every level, allowing troubled lawmen to return to work after repeated acts of misconduct, a Herald-Tribune investigation has found.
Law enforcement agencies around the state employ officers despite cases of serious misconduct in their past, involving everything from violence and perjury to drugs and sexual assault. Many more cases stay hidden because agencies fail to thoroughly investigate or report complaints.
When agencies do try to rid themselves of problem officers, they are often thwarted by the state's powerful law enforcement unions, which have lobbied to give officers better protections and more opportunities to overturn negative findings.http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20111204/article/111139979

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