American police are out of control — 6/4/2025

a once-weekly roundup,
usually on Wednesdays

How it’s possible to starve to death in a US jail

California jail inmate with chronic health issues dies in custody, because medical care behind bars is horrendous

Colorado undersheriff placed on paid leave due to “incident” at home

Six more Florida deputies suspended, fired in wake of Tamarac triple murder

Sheriff offers condolences after inmate at Florida county jail kills herself

Over not wearing a seat belt, Georgia cops chase driver into fatal wreck

Two more inmates die at Georgia’s notorious Fulton County Jail

Hawaii police officer arrested, placed on paid leave accused of sex assault

Police reform: How to fix a watchdog that will barely bark, let alone bite

Indiana State Police allegedly investigating inmate’s death at Howard County Jail

“Despite rigorous life-saving efforts,” New Mexico jail inmate dies

Hulking, 400-lb robocops will start patrolling New York City

NYPD detective on mayor’s security detail may be tied to crypto millionaire torture case: Sources

“It’s life, you know”: Black driver pulls over before cop’s siren, but it turns out that’s “suspicious behavior” too

Over expired tabs, North Carolina cops chase motorcyclist into fatal wreck

Over traffic violation, Oklahoma cops chase vehicle into wreck, killing innocent bystander

Person in custody of Franklin County Jail dies at hospital, warden says

Cruel bastard resigns as top warden at Tennessee juvenile prison that’s named for him

Over traffic violation, Tennessee cops chase driver into wreck that kills passenger

Inmate who died at Memphis Jail was no angel, sheriff’s office says

Texas police chief retires during ‘administrative investigation’

Over suspected stolen car, cops spike tires and cause fatal wreck

Office of Police Accountability and Seattle Police violated medical privacy of protester, then covered it up for five years

Before he pepper-sprayed those two trans rights protesters, Seattle cop Brian Muoio was racially profiling Black men, threatening people with Tasers, and saying the word “motherfucker” a lot

Washington sheriff’s deputy charged with rape of teen girl in Police Explorer program

33-year-old man dies at Milwaukee County Jail, second inmate death in 2 months

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

6/4/2025

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2 responses to “American police are out of control — 6/4/2025”

  1. granville Avatar
    granville

    Is it too on the nose that NYC is RENTING those robocops, that they’re computing it as an hourly wage, and it’s less than minimum wage? Yes?

  2. Doug Holland Avatar

    Nine bucks an hour, ha. I don’t know from NYC, but in Seattle the minimum wage is $20 an hour, and cops *start* at about $50 p/hour with a $7,500 “signing bonus.” So the robocops are cost effective stupidity, I guess. Watch how quickly they’ll be vandalized and decapitated.

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