California considers decertification for 20 police officers.
Twenty California police officers accused of serious misconduct including sexual misconduct, fraud, excessive force, and abuse on duty face possible decertification by the state’s law enforcement accreditation body, a move that would strip them of a license to carry a badge in the state. This is an additional punishment to whatever actions prosecutors or their own departments take against them. The public list is the first since California became the latest state to implement a process for decertifying police officers for serious misconduct.