A once-weekly roundup,
usually on Wednesdays

Unreasonable probation requirements are sending people to jail
DEA unplugs its officers’ bodycams
With 18 deaths so far in 2025, Los Angeles jails continue deadly trend
Inmate dies after 1 day in San Jose jail
Over “mechanical defects,” Maine police chase driver into fatal wreck
Former Massachusetts state police sergeant found guilty of taking bribes to pass commercial drivers
Michigan police department is sued over alleged ‘violent’ sexual misconduct by former sergeant
Over traffic violation, Minnesota cops chase woman into fatal wreck
A Mississippi man spent 940 days in jail waiting for a trial that never came
A former Missouri police chief is charged with stealing $300,000 from his tiny town
NYPD investigates itself after giving Palestinian woman’s sealed arrest records to ICE
Over traffic violation, New York police chase man into fatal wreck
Family says Ohio jail guards stood by as restrained man who later died lost consciousness
Oklahoma jail employee fired, arrested after fight leads to inmate death
Investigation allegedly underway after Oklahoma inmate is found dead in cell
Oklahoma residents petition for grand jury investigation into sheriff, DA
Draft report by Oregon police agency blasts sheriff for lying
Man dies in Dallas police custody after being medically cleared, cops says
Lawsuit claims dozens of kids were sexually abused in Washington juvenile lockup
Seattle PD ‘suspends’ retired commander for asking deputy to falsify domestic violence report
Wrongful death suit challenges Wyoming cop for illegally entering home
99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it’s not on this page.
When cops are caught breaking the law, they’re investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers’ names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.
When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with ‘law enforcement experience’ and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It’s called “Wandering Cops.”
When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: “testilying.” Yet it’s almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.
Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don’t, they aren’t cops for long.
The legal doctrine of “qualified immunity” renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past ‘qualified immunity’ is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.
All this is a path to a police state.
In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.
Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.
That’s the solution.
Last week’s police brutality,
misconduct, and perversions
5/7/2025

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