"Denver police officers caught using confidential criminal databases for personal reasons -- such as learning a woman's phone number -- get only light punishment, allowing the potentially dangerous abuse to continue, the city's independent police monitor wrote in a report released Tuesday."

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/a49833ece6a94e0ea2a569d857e94ebf/denver-monitor-urges-steep-penalty-crime-database-abuse