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No matter how carefully a law enforcement agency screens its officers through background checks and psychological exams, officers prone to engage in misconduct still slip through. This can be caused by back recruit selection, or because of internal or external forces that act on an otherwise good officer to cause him to stray from doing the job that he knows how to do. The public tends to remember these officers and their misconduct. Even though a police department might do 99.9% of its tasks correctly, they will be reminded repeatedly of an act of misconduct by even one bad apple.

Most of the time, in the aftermath of a regrettable incident, inspection of the problem officer's …