Every cop in one Alaska city has a domestic violence record — including the chief, a shocking new investigation into lax hiring standards at police departments throughout the state has revealed.

Understaffed, low-paying departments across the state are so desperate for new recruits that dozens of convicted criminals are now serving as cops, the Anchorage Daily News reported.

Often, ex-cons are the only applicants, according to the investigation, which was conducted with the nonprofit outlet ProPublica.

In the small city of Stebbins, which pays officers $14 an hour, all seven cops have pleaded guilty to domestic violence charges in the past decade, according to the report.

The chief copped to throwing a teen relative to the ground and threatening to kill her in 2017, a year before he was hired.

“Am I a cop now?” a sex offender and convicted car thief and drunk driver named Nimeron Mike recalls thinking after the Stebbins police department hired him a day after he filled out his application.

“It’s like, that easy?” he remembers wondering.

Mike’s record included a conviction for choking a woman unconscious in an attempted sexual assault, the investigation found.

He was ultimately fired three months into the job — a town official told the paper he wasn’t responding to calls and didn’t get along with another officer.

In all, at least 14 Alaskan communities had hired cops whose criminal records should have barred them from the job.

The “foxes-guarding-the-henhouse” expose follows a May investigation by the paper that found one in three Alaska communities has no local cops at all.