[yahoo.com – 5/25/21] The goal of the database is to prevent cops who have been fired or resigned from getting rehired at another police department USC’s Safe Communities Institute is developing a national database of police officers who have been terminated or resigned due to misconduct. The first-of-its-kind registry is called the Law Enforcement Work Inquiry System, or LEWIS registry, named after late civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis. The LEWIS Registry aims to bring transparency and accountability to law enforcement, and the announcement coincides with the one-year anniversary of the police-killing…
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