Nearly 1,000 US officers lost badges to sexual misconduct over five years.

Evidence

An Associated Press state-by-state review prompted by the Holtzclaw case turned up nearly one thousand officers across the country who lost their badges between 2009 and 2014 for sexual misconduct. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 234

Categorization

• CANDY: A striking, concrete number that lands in conversation: nearly a thousand cops stripped of badges in five years for sexual misconduct.