American police are out of control — 12/21

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

Alaska: Seward man died by homicide at the Anchorage jail last year, lawsuit says

Over traffic violation, Arkansas cops chase driver into fatal wreck

Arkansas: Benton County inmate found unresponsive in cell, dies at hospital

California: Grand jury indicts 3 current, former deputies in Santa Rita Jail death case

California: 27-year-old man dies in custody at Oakland courthouse

Florida: 4 Polk County deputies resign; others suspended, none prosecuted after inmate’s death went unnoticed for nearly a day despite required checks every 15 minutes

Georgia: Investigation allegedly underway after man dies in Bibb County Jail

Over traffic violation, Georgia cops chase man on moped into fatal wreck

New Orleans Police Dept fires 2 veteran officers with long histories of misconduct and prior arrests

Excerpt: Christopher Jennings, a 16-year NOPD veteran, and Reginald Koeller, a 21-year NOPD veteran, were both dismissed. …

Both former officers had lengthy disciplinary histories and prior arrests. Jennings was booked in May 2024 for theft and malfeasance tied to payroll fraud after being paid for Walmart details he allegedly did not work; and Koeller was arrested in April 2022 for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and for illegally carrying a weapon while in possession of the drug.
The Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office dropped Jennings’ 13 charges — six involving theft, six for first-degree injuring public record and one for malfeasance — in March, court records show.

Jennings’ disciplinary history includes suspensions for use of force in 2015, failure to report misconduct in 2016 and neglect of duty in 2021. He was also the subject of payroll fraud investigations in 2023 and 2024. …

Oklahoma: Former Mannford school resource pleads guilty to charges, sentencing set for October 21

Over traffic violation, Massachusetts cops chase driver into wreck that kills 84-year-old woman

FDC Philadelphia correctional officer pleads guilty to sexual abuse, violating inmate’s civil rights

South Carolina: Gamecock player hit by Texas A&M gameday cop files criminal complaint

South Carolina: Man left vomiting until unconscious in Horry County jail cell before death, suit claims

South Carolina: Woman in Charleston jail died from fentanyl withdrawal. Video shows medical neglect, attorney says.

Texas: Dallas Police to expand controversial facial recognition tech to less serious crimes

Former Cleveland police officer who fatally shot Tamir Rice fired from West Virginia ranger job

A violent police academy drill has been tied to deaths and injuries across the country

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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