American police are out of control — 1/13

American cops are armed and dangerous, barely trained, barely supervised. They can get away with anything, and do.

Arizona: Glendale facing lawsuit after cops shot and killed wrong man

Arkansas: Charlie Vaughn, who spent decades in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, has been released from prison

California: Protester blinded, skull fractured by DHS agent during Santa Ana demonstration, family says

California: Video of arrest by San Diego officers sparks outrage, alleged investigation

DC: Man killed, 3 others injured, 5 vehicles hit in police chase over traffic violation

Florida police said they were forced to kill a black man, refused calls for bodycam video — then a neighbor’s footage blew the story apart

Georgia: Deputy arrested after mother finds explicit messages he sent to teenage daughter

Three inmates dead after ‘possible riot’ at Georgia state prison

Family seeks answers after ICE deported man to Costa Rica in vegetative state

Chicagoans share accounts of Chicago police helping ICE and Border Patrol agents at long-overdue public listening session

Chicago city lawyers recommend $22-million payout to family of bystander killed in police chase that violated police policy

Family seeking 2nd autopsy after Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody

3 masked CBP/ICE agents surround and use a AI facial scanner on a Somali-American women as the Federal Government begins illegal door-to-door raids in the Twin Cities

ICE kidnap 17-year-old US citizen working at Target then dump him bleeding and crying miles away in a Walmart parking lot

ICE abducts teenage boy on his way home from school

ICE tear-gasses one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis

ICE agents attack woman’s car, bust her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pull her out before arresting her

ICE SUV rams vehicle in traffic, breaks window, beats and abducts driver

Platoon of ICE agents storm into neighborhood home full of kids

‘Because I was Latino, that’s it’: ICE rams car in south Minneapolis while profiling driver

4 male ICE agents tackle and abduct woman

Minnesota: Inmate dies after a medical emergency at the Renville County Jail

Missouri: Un-named cop “is no longer employed by Joplin Police Department” after 14 months unauthorized use of Flock plate-reader; city’s redaction of names & plates easily circumvented

Two Ex-NYPD officers who sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman off-duty, sentenced to probation

Cambodian refugee dies in ICE custody

Central Texas sheriff charged with tampering, failing to report a felony

Wisconsin: Menasha police officer accused of using license plate recognition system to track his ex

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.

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