Ald. Leslie Hairston (5) ripped Ald. Scott Waguespack (32) and city attorneys for “watering down” legislation to launch a database of historic police misconduct.

An attempt to legislate a city-managed database of historic police misconduct complaints fizzled for the second time in two months on Monday, as aldermen failed to reconcile an impasse between the measure’s supporters and the agency that would be charged with putting it into practice.