a recurring roll call of bad cops
LAPD officers on horses beat people standing in line to get into nightclub
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
“To protect and serve,” but not you.
ICE’s hiring surge is attracting a bunch of unfit & criminal applicants
DC cops sued after arresting a man for playing Darth Vader’s theme near federal troops
Florida: Orlando PD tried to cover up rule-breaking fatal chase of driver who ran red light
Georgia: Black woman wrongfully jailed for charges meant for white woman with same name
On Halloween, ‘state-sponsored terror’ in Chicago and the north suburbs
Excerpt: In Albany Park, they fired pepper-spray balls to disperse an angry crowd and arrested two U.S. citizens. In Evanston, one repeatedly pointed his weapon at protesters while another knelt on a man’s back and punched him in the head. They grabbed workers at an apartment complex in Hoffman Estates, landscapers, house painters and laborers in Edison Park, Skokie and Niles.
Immigration agents detained a schizophrenic man — then dropped him miles from home
ICE and Border Patrol’s use of tear gas injures, sickens and tests the law
How a Maryland prisoner died an ‘excruciating’ death from dehydration
Excerpt: Correctional staff at a Western Maryland prison shut off the water to a mentally ill man’s cell, then allowed him to suffer for eight days before he finally died of dehydration, according to a lawsuit.
“There’s no due process” — ICU nurse, army veteran among US citizens caught in ICE dragnet
Oklahoma: Over a stolen car, cops chase driver into fatal wreck
Excerpt: Sheriff’s Deputy John Wildhaber did not directly address a question about why jail staff moved Year into a cell with Richeson after allegations of an earlier attack on a cellmate. Wildhaber said only that Year and Richeson were moved into the same disciplinary unit because of unspecified misconduct.
Tennessee: Off-duty Nashville officer injured in fight with bar security guards
“I don’t feel safe” — Black Memphis residents report harassment by Trump’s police task force
Tennessee: Second Shelby County Jail inmate dies within a week
Seattle Police drug arrests were part of Trump’s anti-immigrant “Operation Take Back America”
Washington: Inmate dies in custody at Grant County Jail
Washington: Family files $26M wrongful death claim against Lakewood after father of 7 killed in police chase
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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11/5/2025
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