American police are out of control — 10/8

a recurring roundup of ‘bad cops’

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

California: Family and friends seek answers after Orange County man dies in ICE custody

Another immigrant dies in ICE custody in California, this time in the Imperial Valley

Over reckless driving, California cops chase driver into fatal wreck

California woman knocked unconscious during arrest for pulling vehicle over reaches $17m settlement

California: Yuba County Jail correctional officer allegedly took inmate off grounds, sexually assaulted her

Florida: Arbitrator rules that cop who hid during 2018 Parkland school shootings does not get his job back

Illinois: Over speeding, cops chase driver into fatal wreck

Michigan: 2 Sterling Heights police officers head to trial for allegedly deploying K-9 on detained suspect

Two killed as Mississippi police chase stolen vehicle into fatal wreck

Nebraska: Police order black boxing champ out of car at gunpoint after hometown victory parade

You can fuck your way out of a DUI with this North Carolina cop

Ohio: Over stolen vehicle, cops chase driver into wreck, killing innocent motorist

Pennsylvania: Police sergeant charged after shoving teen & lying about it

New York cops haven’t said why they chased motorist into fatal wreck

South Carolina: Beaufort County sheriff’s deputy suspended after drunkenly pointing gun at teenagers

Over stolen vehicle, Texas cops chase 16-year-old driver into wreck, killing innocent bystander

Seattle officers ‘undermining’ city’s police alternative, report says

Seattle Police Chief puts cop who called 2020 protesters “cockroaches” in charge of East Precinct

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

10/8/2025

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