a once-weekly roundup,
usually on Wednesdays

After almost four years, trial begins for California cop accused of stealing marijuana from drivers

Colorado: Former Deputy District Attorney sentenced after pleading guilty to child sex assault

“There were like 15 cop cars”: Delaware cops arrest black women and children at gunpoint after falsely accusing them of stealing their own car, shocking video shows

Kansas man jailed for traffic violations dies in his cell

Louisiana: Sheriff says St. Gabriel officer found dead had supplied drugs to killer to sell in community

Over traffic violation, Missouri cops chase driver into wreck, killing two people in the other car

Montana: Rapist former sheriff gets pretty sweet plea dea

For allegedly speeding, Montana cop chases driver into fatal wreck

New York: Woodstock police officer fired for excessive force during traffic stop caught on video

Former NYPD officer Michael Valva sentenced to 25 years to life for murder of 8-year-old son

NYPD officer Yvonne Wu, accused of shooting ex and killing ex’s girlfriend, facing murder charges

New York: Lawn Guyland priest accused of sexually abusing a woman inside a church kitchen

Mayor and police chiefs let corruption fester at NYPD, lawsuits charge

“More questions than answers” as 18-year-old dies after being arrested

58-year-old inmate dead after being found unresponsive at Oklahoma County jail

Oregon: DCSO Corrections Officer arrested and faces assault, misconduct charges

For riding motorized scooter, Pennsylvania cops chase man into fatal wreck

‘Planted a gun’: Black Mom accuses Memphis cops of cold-blooded cover-up in son’s killing after weapon mysteriously appears minutes later in bodycam footage

Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr ignores the law, encourages prison telecom monopolies to rip off inmate families

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

7/9/2025

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