American police are out of control — 5/21/2025

A once-weekly roundup,
usually on Wednesdays

FBI closes unit that allegedly assured compliance with surveillance rules

Justice Department ends police reform agreements and halts investigations into major departments

How to sniff out ‘copaganda’: When the police and the media manipulate our news

Increased legal immunity for police passes in final hour of Alabama legislative session

In wake of excessive force allegations, some corrections officers got promoted

Inmate died by suicide in Daleville jail, state agents say

Over alleged drunk driving, cops chase driver into fiery crash, leaving a 30-year-old woman in critical condition and injuring four others, including a 12-year-old boy

The disgraced cop who cost a small California town millions

Man crossing the street is hit and killed by Visalia police officer

Over alleged traffic violation, cops chase vehicle into retaining wall; passenger killed

Woman dies in San Diego Sheriff’s custody one day after arrest — fourth jail death in the county for 2025

Investigation allegedly underway for death of Adams County jail inmate

Boulder County Jail hasn’t allowed in-person visitation since 2020

Granby police officer forced his son to drink olive brine as punishment; it killed him

Police sergeant who once led Tampa’s sex crimes squad is sentenced to more than 100 years in prison for possessing child pornography

Women sue over sexual abuse suffered at shuttered Milton juvenile jail

Miami cop is cleared in shooting of mentally ill black man carrying screwdriver — shot as he was already falling from being tasered

Walton County Sheriff’s Office allegedly investigating inmate’s death at county jail

Family sues Atlanta, former police officer over teen’s sexual assault, history of ignoring sexual predators within police department

City of Chicago continues to prosecute 2024 DNC protesters, despite mounting court losses and little punishment for those found guilty

Investigation allegedly underway after inmate dies at Elkhart County Jail

Critics blast hourslong gap before officials disclosed 10 inmates’ escape from New Orleans jail

Inmate dies in custody in Eunice, police allegedly investigate

Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras

Maryland ‘mislabeled’ 41 homicides involving police restraint, audit finds

Inmate found dead in Florissant jail, police say possible suicide

Washington County inmate awaiting sentencing found dead in cell

Judge finds police acted reasonably in shooting New Mexico man while at wrong address

Fired New York trooper admits he shot himself and then fabricated a story about being ambushed by a black man, triggering a massive, multi-state manhunt

Investigation allegedly underway after inmate death at Oklahoma County Detention Center

Grants intended for “treatment first” drug programs are instead used to beef up law enforcement

Cop Carlito Cortez accused of stealing woman’s $500k estate

Over alleged traffic violation, cops chase driver into wreck, killing passenger

Hill Country officer arrested on child sexual assault charges

Cops haven’t said why they chased vehicle into fatal wreck

Over traffic violation, cops chase motorcyclist into fatal wreck

Over alleged stolen car, cops chase driver into fatal wreck

League City lawyer sues police who arrested him for not displaying handicap placard

Utah detectives placed on leave pending investigation into alleged sex assault

Washington state deputy punched black man during traffic stop for a broken taillight, then shot him in the head. County pays family $3.5m but keeps him on the force.

Inmate at the DC Jail is stabbed and killed by another inmate

Milwaukee PD wants to trade 2.5 million mugshots for free facial recognition tech

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

5/21/2025

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