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Many law enforcement agencies failing to report information on departing officers, group finds

A state law, passed in 2017, requires law enforcement agencies to report why departing officers left their employment. According to a database created by the Innocence Project New Orleans, that is not happening in most cases. Law enforcement agencies in Louisiana are failing in a majority of cases to report why officers leave their employment, […]