A new database aims to keep track of police misconduct allegations. It has 200,000 records so far

The results of investigations into police officer misconduct are frequently kept private. A new push by USA TODAY and a nonprofit group aims to change that with a searchable, nationwide database of disciplined officers.

Reporters from USA TODAY, its 100-plus affiliated newsrooms and the nonprofit Invisible Institute in Chicago have spent more than a year creating the biggest collection of police misconduct records.

Obtained from thousands of state agencies, prosecutors, police departments and sheriffs, the records detail at least 200,000 incidents of alleged misconduct, much of it previously unreported. The records obtained include more than 110,000 internal affairs investigations by hundreds of individual departments and more than 30,000 officers who were decertified by 44 state oversight agencies.

The records obtained so far include nearly 23,000 excessive force investigations, more than 3,000 alleged rapes, and 2,300 domestic violence claims. USA TODAY notes that while fewer than one in 10 officers have ever been the subject of such investigations, nearly 2,500 "have been investigated on 10 or more charges."

You can access the database here.

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