a recurring roll call of bad cops
US police involved in fatal incidents use victims privacy law to hide their identity
Cops used Flock to monitor No Kings protests around the country
California: 1 dead, 3 injured in wreck after high-speed police chase over traffic violation
California: Over traffic violation, cops chase driver into fatal wreck
Georgia police chief charged with using license plate readers to stalk and harass people
Health worsens for double amputee detained in Georgia ICE jail
Drunk driving Chicago police officer faces firing after testing positive for meth, weed
Identified: federal agents who pointed gun, punched detainee in Evanston, Illinois
Bodycam footage from Operation Midway Blitz released: ‘It’s all about arresting people’
Excerpt: U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis ordered the 43 videos released after she relied heavily on them in issuing a preliminary injunction last week restricting the use of tear gas and other chemical munitions by agents on the public and media.
In her 233-page opinion, Ellis wrote that, over and over, body-worn camera footage from the agents undermined what was eventually put in their use-of-force reports, rendering their statements unreliable.
The reports also misidentified “neighborhood moms and dads, Chicago Bears fans, people dressed in Halloween costumes, and the lawyer who lives on the block” as professional agitators, Ellis wrote, while the body cameras at times captured the agents’ apparent glee in deploying tear gas and other munitions on residential streets.
Illinois: Inmate dies at Cook County Jail after fire in his cell
Illinois: ICE suddenly loses key evidence, one day after being sued
Maryland: Hyattsville police officer freed on unsecured bond after child sex abuse arrest
Why no one knows how many people die in Mississippi’s local jails
Excerpt: … on May 19, 2024, a neighbor found Teddy wandering in her backyard after he escaped his own fenced yard. Because the police in the 900-person town of Sturgeon also are responsible for animal control duties, the neighbor called them to assist in locating Teddy’s owner.
Body camera footage shows the officer arriving and spending about three minutes attempting to use his snare pole to try and lasso Teddy before finally giving up and simply shooting him at close range. The footage clearly shows the small, blind dog posed no threat to the officer or anyone else.
Montana woman killed in her home as police chase drunk driver into wreck in her living room
New Jersey: Cop allegedly caught shoplifting 4 different times at supermarket in Hillsborough
New Jersey: Jersey City police sergeant charged with sex assault, endangering welfare of a child
Upstate New York police department has a pattern of calling Border Patrol after minor incidents
North Carolina: For speeding, cops chase driver into wreck, killing bystander
Pennsylvania: Over traffic stop, cops chase driver into wreck, killing three
Rhode Island: ICE handcuffs and detains teenage judicial intern outside Providence courthouse
Tennessee: Memphis cop convicted of on-duty kidnapping & murder is sentenced to 38 years
Texas: “Relieved of duty” Houston police captain now faces federal child sex charges, DOJ says
‘Why won’t you help me?’ Pregnant women and their babies endure inhumane conditions in US jails
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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