When police officers facing allegations of misconduct are fired or resign "in lieu of termination," they often get hired at other departments in the state. While these investigations and their findings are largely kept out of the public eye, officer certification history provides a public record of where officers have worked, how long they worked there, and whether they left on good terms, left amid an investigation, or were fired.
The ACLU of West Virginia Police Accountability Dashboard takes public records from the West Virginia's police certification process and transforms them into information you can use to understand more about your local police.
Using the Police Accountability Dashboard, you can search by officer or police department to pull up officer histories or search by department and see the roster of police who’ve worked there. The map view also provides an overlay that shows you how many police officers are currently certified at any given department while also providing information social and economic indexes that show economic disparity, racial diversity, poverty rates, and population amounts for each county in West Virginia.
Click on the map above to get started or go to dashboard.dragline.org to learn more.