This interview originally aired on In the Moment on SDPB Radio.
Since 2016, there's been 132% increase in investigations into law enforcement officer misconduct in the state. John Hult, senior reporter at the South Dakota Searchlight, set off to find out why.
He stripped away assumptions and snap judgements to examine the causes behind the jump. While there was an increase in investigations, there may not have been a similar rise in misconduct incidents.
Hult discusses his reporting and the potential issues he sees in a recent discipline change made in response to the hike in investigations.
