1.5 million pages of police misconduct and use-of-force records.
Twelve thousand cases. Nearly 700 California law enforcement agencies.
https://filtermag.org/california-police-misconduct-database/
The Police Records Access Project is live.
UC Berkeley and Stanford built it.
CalMatters, LA Times, SF Chronicle, and KQED put it out.
https://journalism.berkeley.edu/police-records-access/
You can search by officer name, agency, or case type.
Shootings, beatings, lies, sexual assaults, illegal searches — all in there.
https://clean.calmatters.org/
“Before [2019], some agencies actually started destroying records. We had to sue in other places to produce these records.”
https://filtermag.org/california-police-misconduct-database/
“First they’ll have a tantrum about ‘officer safety’ and refuse to do their jobs to punish the citizens.”
Thousands of files on rogue California cops made public via searchable database
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“Now if this was on a federal level and we could get civilian review boards, that might start to bring some confidence back.”
It took seven years to get here.
Nobody’s naming the departments that shredded files before SB 1421 kicked in.
Nobody’s talking about the officers who skipped town to wipe their records.
The laws passed in 2018 and 2021.
Until now, you had to beg each department one by one for the truth.
AI helped sort the files.
State money paid for the build.
Departments are already mining it to vet their own hires.
This isn’t a tech story.
It’s an institutional one.
And now the receipts are public.