"level of misconduct" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to describe the behavior of a person who has broken the rules, for example: "The level of misconduct exhibited by the employee was completely unacceptable."
Many of the accounting corrections do not rise to the level of misconduct.
According to Michigan's attorney general, Bill Schuette, Peeler's action rises to the level of misconduct in office.
The committee did find the doctor grossly negligent -- the highest level of misconduct -- in his care of one of the 11 patients whose cases were reviewed.
Next, the State alleges that the defendant corruptly arrested Mr. Gray without probable cause, and that the arrest rises to the level of misconduct in office.
Although cleared of most of the recent charges, Dr. Arbit was found to be grossly negligent -- the highest level of misconduct -- in his care of one of the 11 patients.
Making commanders responsible for rising civilian complaints against their subordinates, in the same way they are held responsible for increases in reported crimes, has also helped drive down the level of misconduct, he said.
"We're still seeing fairly significant levels of misconduct," said Richard Girgenti, KPMG's national director of investigative and integrity management services.
Girls who labeled themselves as lesbian or bisexual appeared to be at highest risk for punishment, experiencing 50 percent more police stops and about twice the risk of arrest and conviction as heterosexual girls who reported similar levels of misconduct.
Edward F. Stancik, the city's special commissioner of investigations in the schools, who is charged with handling reports of sexual misconduct, said he believed that even the current city statistics underestimated the true level of sexual misconduct.
He added, "However, there is no hard or firm evidence that the deficiencies rise to the level of scientific misconduct".
The lawyer originally assigned to review the matter, Terrence Berg, had concluded that the mistakes did not rise to the level of professional misconduct.
