On July 6,
Sonia Massie was shot and killed in her Illinois home by a Sangamon county police officer,
Sean Grayson.
Grayson and another police officer had come to Massey's home after she'd called 911 about a prowler.
Once inside her house,
Grayson asked Massey to remove a pot on the stove
and an interaction which rapidly ended with him opening fire.
He claimed to have feared for his life because of the pot of water,
and as a result, the 36 year old mother of two is dead.
This is a horrible and all too common story.
And in the weeks following Massie's death, one additional fact came to light.
Grayson had held five jobs in four years, all at different police departments in central Illinois.
Now he's been fired from Sixth.
The AP reports that at one of those jobs as a sheriff's deputy in Logan county,
he was reprimanded for ignoring a command to end a high speed chase and ended up hitting a deer.
Why do police officers like Grayson keep getting hired?
Part of the answer comes from today's guest, UChicago Law Professor John Rapoport,
whose research on wandering officers revealed the extent
to which previously fired officers find jobs in new departments
and the structural incentives of small departments to keep hiring them.