There is widespread support among local government and law enforcement for the creation of a statewide misconduct database for law enforcement officers, according to a report from the University of Michigan's Center for Local, State and Urban Policy.
At 88 percent, almost all sheriffs and police chiefs and more than two-thirds, or 68 percent, of local government officials, support an access-restricted misconduct database to just law enforcement officials. However, these numbers plummet when it comes to publicly available databases.