Hawaii has one of the highest rates of fired officers getting their jobs back through arbitration but other communities are facing the same issue.

The deputy sheriff accused of assault maintains he did nothing wrong.

The Hawaii Law Enforcement Officer Independent Review Board recommended against prosecuting the officers involved in the death of Dustin Spencer.

A Civil Beat investigation found that arbitrators in Hawaii overturn a police chief’s decision to suspend or fire an officer nearly 65% of the time.

The Honolulu Police Department is painting a different picture of the reasons officers arrested the girl at her elementary school.

Former judge Michael Broderick has been on the commission about 15 months.

It would go a long way for the department to occasionally admit that it made a mistake.

Brandon Saffeels was sentenced to 30 months behind bars for soliciting sex from a woman he arrested in exchange for throwing testimony in her case.

Greater community engagement would send a strong message to job candidates and influence for the better the Honolulu Police Commission’s ongoing search.

Honolulu leaves it up to officers when to start a chase. That’s unusual, a Civil Beat review shows, and many HPD pursuits would not be allowed in other jurisdictions.