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
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
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
Women sue over sexual abuse suffered at shuttered Milton juvenile jail
Walton County Sheriff’s Office allegedly investigating inmate’s death at county jail
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
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
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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