Jennvine Wong, an attorney with The Legal Aid Society’s Cop Accountability Project, recently joined The Brian Lehrer Show to discuss the project’s comprehensive new database Law Enforcement Lookup (LELU) which makes over 450K records on police and corrections officers available to the public.

LELU contains documents from the Civilian Complaint Review Board, internal NYPD misconduct records, and lawsuits brought against officers among other source materials. Legal Aid plans to update LELU on a regular basis as additional records become available.

Wong hopes to empower the communities Legal Aid serves and the public at large by bringing greater transparency to the histories of officers in the field.

“LELU provides some insight if there are recorded incidents of misconduct, whether that officer has been disciplined before, whether investigations into any prior misconduct were done in a way that was complete, sufficient, impartial,” she said. “It provides information and information is power.”

Listen to the full episode below and search LELU here.