<p class="main-content side-txt">From a tiny department in the mountains of Idaho to the New
                                York Police Department, USA TODAY found more than 300 cases of officers who bucked law
                                enforcement’s blue wall of silence by reporting or testifying against co-workers accused
                                of misconduct over the past decade. In Colorado, an internal affairs investigator leaked
                                a video of an officer punching a handcuffed man in a wheelchair in the head. In Texas,
                                an officer reported a sergeant who had planted drugs in his ex-wife’s car. In Louisiana,
                                a state trooper refused to participate in what he says was a cover-up in the case of
                                Ronald Greene, who died in state custody after being beaten and stunned with a Taser.
                                After speaking out, all of them were forced out of their departments and branded
                                traitors by fellow officers.
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                            <strong class="frst-big extramar">What the data means</strong>
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                            <p class="main-content-show">In our searchable database, the bold title for each entry and
                                the sortable categories describe the nature of the allegation; they do not indicate
                                whether the misconduct was proven to have occurred. The year column indicates when the
                                purported wrongdoing happened. In some cases, it was reported later. Unless otherwise
                                indicated, the accused officers and/or department leaders have denied wrongdoing.</p>
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                            <strong class="frst-big extramar">Where the data comes from</strong>
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                            <p class="main-content-show">USA TODAY spent more than a year unearthing the cases from
                                thousands of documents from police and sheriff’s departments, prosecutors, oversight
                                groups and labor regulators around the country, including federal files provided by
                                confidential sources.</p>
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                            <strong class="frst-big extramar">More to this story</strong>
                            <br>
                            <p class="main-content-show"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2021/12/09/blue-wall-police-misconduct-whistleblower-retaliation/8836387002/"><u>Speaking
                                        out against police misconduct brings trouble for officers</u></a></p>