More than one in 10 college campus police in Georgia have been fired or forced to resign from a previous job, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation found.

The number of college officers with these checkered pasts is double the percentage of officers working at local county or municipal agencies. Roughly 13 percent of the 1,413 officers working on 63 college campuses across Georgia have been fired or forced from a job.

The offenses that led to college officers getting let go from a previous job ranged from domestic violence to excessive force to lying to their superiors. Smaller colleges tended to have more tolerance for officers with problems in their histories, matching a trend of small police agencies across the state.

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