More than 20 senior DC cops to be dismissed, including several due to serious misconduct [Video]

More than 20 senior Washington, D.C., police officers will not be returning to the force after the end of the month, with more than half due to alleged serious misconduct. 

The 21 officers had all retired and were rehired by the Metropolitan Police Department on a year-by-year basis, according to Fox 5 DC. These officers’ contracts all end on April 30.

The Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act of 2022 prohibited the police department from “appointing police officers who have any serious misconduct in their background,” police spokesperson Tom Lynch told the outlet.

The law led to 12 of the officers being dismissed.

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After first being introduced in the summer of 2020 in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minnesota, the law was later made permanent in December 2022 and transmitted to Congress without D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser’s signature, according to Fox 5 DC.

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