A hack of the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department exposed a highly secret Veracity Disclosure List, commonly known as a Giglio List.
KCUR and WIRED’s review of the document revealed dramatic details of alleged officer misconduct, from incompetence to domestic violence.
The story reporters, WIRED’s Dhruv Mehrotra and KCUR’s Peggy Lowe, along with editor Andrew Couts, found 62 officers on the list, some of whom still work for the department today. Even with over a terabyte of data to sift through, Lowe said there were known corrupt cops whose alleged misconduct did not make it on the list. That includes disgraced detective Roger Golubski, whom Lowe had been investigating for years…