I would say this is a low-ball number. There are large numbers of badge wearers who do not deserve to wear a badge, nor even to be allowed to live among normal, civilized humans.

I suspect there are 7-15% of professional anythings just skirting by, either unable or unwilling to measure up to standards of the profession, or in it because it soothes some private agenda they can't find elsewhere.

I'm retired now, but when I was working as a auditor, a few of my co-workers were, in my opinion, not up to standards.

they have been found as a serious offender they deserve to be fired from their job given they've taken the oath to protect & serve the public and their crimes prove exactly the opposite of that. Better to be short staffed than to have crooked cops who can harm the public. The counties & cities will just need to do a better job at hiring qualified candidates.

that I would classify as ‘walking major findings.’ No corrective action short of firing would have sufficed.

hind them.
Abuse of power.
Rotten apples in Blue.
Kick 'em out.

but I do get your point.

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Many of the LOE's fired for cause simply move to another city or state. (or maybe join the Wagner group) Apparently, policing is their "calling".

Good on California and governor Newsom.

by municipalities sued by citizens over police misconduct, you'd think it would be in their interest to scrutinize applicant more thoroughly and dump the bad ones before they cost the city million$$.

Always file a complaint on bad cops. The Brass fears lawsuits and need to know about bad police behavior.

Would such a fear be more justified if one lived in neighborhoods that are more heavily patrolled than, say, one who lived in a gated community?

that cops file.

with open arms and moving assistance money

Both had as motivations to attend police academy blatantly racist violence. One of them was often my meatwagon partner. Ww just tended to agree to disagree about his racist shit. That was early 80's in the ambulance Corp, one of them shared pics of his LAPD badge years later, unknown if he grew out of that: he was under peer pressure from the other big lug who I never liked at all. But if he participated in racist policing I'd be glad he lost his job.

constantly heard horror stories about lapd . we had our own trouble maker cops .

guess there might be more than one bad apple.

When LEOs behave like that it's almost never an isolated instance. It's very likely they have committed other abuses so their removal helps prevent future incidents of bad behavior. Plus, removing the bad apples should help to lower the overall rate of complaints. Other states and jurisdictions should be implementing similar programs.

It’s always been said that the police unions have such strong contracts, along with qualified immunity, it’s almost impossible to fire a cop.

I’m guessing instead of paying out millions in wrongful death settlements, governments will be in court fighting wrongful termination suits.

Still, this seems like a good step, I wasn’t aware of the law previously.

rejected when they applied to become police officers. Mostly by failing the psychiatric evaluation. I don't know how long they have been doing these evaluations, but in the case of these people I know, I'm glad they did.