The LEWIS Registry, Law Enforcement Work Inquiry System, is named after Rep. John Lewis, the civil rights icon, who passed away last year. The registry is intended to hold police and their departments accountable for whom they hire and build trust among the public that bad apples will not be recycled from agency to agency.
The registry will provide transparency for the public and help police departments decide which officers to hire and which to potentially avoid. "The goal is to make it simple for the public to be able to see everything that's publicly known," said Salinas. The registry will give the public a database that names officers who have ben fired or resigned from a law enforcement agency. It also intends to help law enforcement agencies make better hiring decisions by collecting statistics that will be walled-off with in depth statistics intended for analytics.
The registry is the product of the University of Southern California's Safe Communities Institute and was co-founded by SCI Director Dr. Erroll Southers and Dr. Guez Salinas. Many police departments around the nation look forward to using this tool to keep their police departments the best they can be. I think it's a fantastic tool from which both the public and law enforcement will benefit.
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