This Central Valley police chief forced an officer to remodel his home; now he’s California’s latest criminal cop
Pictured above: Former McFarland Chief Scot Kimble has worked for at least eight police agencies and been forced out of two. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) This story appeared in the Mercury News and other newspapers across California on Feb. 28, 2020. By Katey Rusch (’20) and Laurence Du Sault (’20) BAKERSFIELD — When Scot…
Read MoreMagazine profiles student reporters investigating California police officers in Bay Area News Group collaboration
This story appeared in California Magazine on January 8, 2020 By Brandon Patterson In May of last year, Laurence Du Sault and Katey Rusch stood hunched over a single desk in a records room in a courthouse in Lancaster, California, carefully parsing and then photocopying court files they had pulled on numerous police officers convicted…
Read MoreHow did this California police department hire so many officers with troubling pasts?
Photo above by Cindy Yamanaka, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG This story appeared in the Mercury News and other newspapers across California on November 11, 2019 By Katey Rusch (’20) and Laurence DuSault (’20) McFARLAND — They hired a cop investigated in an FBI child porn probe, and another caught up in an LAPD burglary ring. They gave…
Read MoreCalifornia’s Criminal Cops: Who they are, what they did, why some are still working
This story appeared on the front page of the Mercury News and more than 30 other California newspapers on November 10, 2019. By Robert Lewis (’08), David Debolt, Jason Paladino (’15), Katey Rusch (’20), Laurence Du Sault (’20), Ali DeFazio (’20) More than 80 law enforcement officers working today in California are convicted criminals, with…
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