The Legal Aid Society decried the lack of comprehensive oversight that allowed 27 former law enforcement officers who have been decertified under a New York regulation – designed to strip police training credentials from officers who have been fired or resign while under investigation – to be rehired by another police department or private agency.

Documents obtained by The Intercept and New York Focus under New York’s Freedom of Information Law show that in some instances, new employers were unaware that the officer they were hiring had previously been decertified, including for substantiated claims of excessive force that resulted in civil rights lawsuits.

Jennvine Wong, a lawyer with The Legal Aid Society’s Cop Accountability Project, said she was not surprised that officers accused of misconduct could move into private security industries.

“These are mostly industries that are going to be highly deferential to the police,” Wong said. “How much credit are they going to give to something that they’ve just viewed as part of the job?”