a once-weekly roundup,
usually on Wednesdays

Alabama: Inmate found dead in Jefferson County Jail, “no foul play suspected”

California: A cop’s background check showed ‘disqualifying’ issues, but the Vallejo PD hired him anyway, and guess what? He’s been plenty of trouble.

Inmate found dead at California county jail

California: Over suspected stolen vehicle, cops chase driver into fatal wreck

California: Cops chase speeding driver into fatal wreck

Border Patrol agent accused of assaulting Long Beach police officer, entering women’s bathroom

Former Colorado officer groomed, exploited high school student, lawsuit says

Former Sheriff’s major sentenced to prison for Florida sex crime

‘I’m conducting a criminal investigation’: Florida deputy drives onto black couple’s property and questions why they’re sitting in front of house, handcuffs husband

Maine school police officer once honored for his service to students was sentenced to jail after exposing himself to a 16-year-old girl during a FaceTime call

Baltimore Police officer charged with raping 16-year-old girl

Maryland: A Dundalk man died in a Baltimore jail. His family hasn’t received any answers.

In “welfare check on a suicidal male,” Minnesota cops chase man into fatal head-on collision

Mississippi: “It’s unclear what led up to the crash” as on-duty cop plows into Toyota, killing two minors

New Jersey cop’s daughter accuses him, others of ‘ritualistic abuse, sexual assault’

NYPD commissioner won’t fire officer who killed a man during traffic stop

New York’s Nassau County will let officers wear masks when working with ICE secret police

Judge temporarily blocks NYPD from firing 31 officers who failed background checks

North Carolina: Inmate found dead at Rockingham county jail

‘That man knows his rights!’: Tulsa cops pull black man from bar without cause, swarm him over gun he didn’t have — bystanders refuse to stay silent in viral confrontation

Portland women sue city after police ram wrong car

Pennsylvania cop gets probation for killing good Samaritan

Over unspecified traffic violation, South Carolina cops chase driver into fatal wreck

Incompetence at sheriff’s office seems integral to Texas flooding disaster

Washington cops spot speeding vehicle, chase driver into fatal wreck

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

7/16/2025

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