Two St. Louis police officers hit a handcuffed man and shocked him with a Taser, leading to a $600,000 settlement. A deputy in southwest Missouri was convicted of assaulting another deputy’s wife. An officer in southeast Missouri who kicked a man on the ground and wrote a misleading report was fired.
They kept their Missouri police licenses and are still working as officers, despite being brought before a state discipline board.
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Misconduct is supposed to be reported to the Missouri Department of Public Safety, but sometimes it take