The Sentinel roster of Aurora cops caught lying, beating, cheating or behaving like a racist truly is a hall of shame, but the biggest shame is the state and local systems that let these broken cops keep working.

Reporters from the Sentinel, the Colorado News Collaborative, Rocky Mountain PBS, 9News and Colorado Public Radio released a months-long investigative report detailing how cops in Aurora, and statewide, are not held accountable for myriad shocking offenses. In some cases, they continue working, move to another department or even remain eligible to do so.

All this despite a heroic and hallmark effort in 2020 to push through statewide police reforms in the shadows of George Floyd, Elijah McClain and a parade of other unnerving bad-cop cases in Aurora.

The investigation, “Undisciplined” revealed that a bevy of loopholes in the nascent state law — including no mechanism for going back even a few years — allows cops, some in Aurora, to keep their jobs or remain eligible for work on another Colorado police force.