American police are out of control — 10/14

a recurring roundup of ‘bad cops’

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

Alabama police chief resigns after being caught on video sexually harassing a teenage dispatcher

Arizona sheriff’s office misused millions meant to remedy racial profiling, report reveals

For speeding, California cops chase motorist into fatal wreck

California: Duval County jail inmate dies by suicide in cell

Colorado: Aurora police sergeant arrested on child exploitation charges

Denver cop is fired after accessing photos of women in “suggestive poses” hundreds of times on his work phone, discipline records read.

Florida deputies force their way into wrong home to arrest wrong man

Indiana: Parole officer used Kik account to receive sexually explicit photos of minor

Prosecutors seek 122 years for former FBI agent in tattoo shop rapes

Black Minnesota postal worker dies after police mistake stroke for drug impairment and jail him

Minnesota State trooper pleads guilty to producing, distributing child pornography

Missouri cops haven’t said why they chased 16-year-old girl into fatal wreck

New York: Big drug bust unravels as lead detective is caught on video planting evidence, altering search warrant

North Carolina: Person dies while in police custody

Ohio: Cuyahoga’s killer sheriff rebuffs call for for independent probe of deaths-by-deputy

Pennsylvania: Pocono area ex-cop serving time for bribery gets another 3-36 months for lying under oath

Texas: Prison officers charged after burning inmate to death in cell

For reckless driving, Texas cops chase driver into fatal wreck

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

10/14/2025

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