Amanda Burke is reporting for The Berkshire Eagle that Massachusetts residents will soon have access to a searchable online database of the complaints filed against active police officers statewide, as well as the outcomes of resulting internal investigations. The public database will contain the names of officers and the types of complaints filed against them, such as allegations of excessive force, policy and protocol infractions, rudeness and "conduct unbecoming." The release of the database has been delayed by the Peace Officer Standards and Training, or POST Commission, which was created as part of the police reform legislation following the 2020 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Although the POST statewide database of all Massachusetts departments is not yet active, The Eagle compiled the Pittsfield data in a searchable form to give residents an idea of the kinds of information that will become available for departments across Berkshire County and the commonwealth. The Eagle has requested the same data from the North Adams Police Department, which covers Berkshire County's other city, and will make it available in a searchable format when it is received. Police departments throughout Massachusetts were required to submit to the POST Commission data on complaints, both substantiated and unsubstantiated, that were made against currently serving police officers. The data reveals that there were about 200 complaints made against police officers now working in Pittsfield since 1994. Of those, 45 were coded as "substantiated," and 53 resulted in some form of discipline, ranging from a letter of reprimand, retraining, resignation, verbal reprimand, and loss of assignment. A link to the database is available on the WGXC Newsroom page. Read the full story in The Berkshire Eagle.