American police are out of control — 9/10

a once-weekly roundup of ‘bad cops’,
usually on Wednesdays

American cops are armed and dangerous, barely trained, barely supervised. They can get away with anything, and do.

Another person dies in ICE custody

Over suspicion of drunk driving, Alabama cops chase driver into wreck that kills innocent high school kid

Over “vehicle code violations,” California cops chase motorcyclist into fatal wreck

Colorado: Dude took “fighting stance,” so cops shot him dead

Over registration violation, Delaware cops chase driver into fatal wreck

51-year-old Florida deputy allegedly threatened to kill minor he was regularly raping

Georgia: Judges rule DEA has to pay legal fees for man they stole money from at Atlanta airport

For speeding, Georgia cops chase driver, then use PIT maneuver to kill him

Idaho: Officers who shot and killed autistic teenager Victor Perez will not face criminal charges

Over stolen vehicle, Indiana cops chase perp into fatal wreck

Shadow arrests: Chicago Police make growing use of forced psychiatric hospitalization

Florida Sheriff says “This is how people get killed” after cops chase driver at 118 mph and cause wreck with PIT maneuver, over a traffic violation

Kentucky cop gets seventh lawsuit after breaking woman’s arm

Former Western Mass. reverend wanted on child sex abuse charges arrested in Florida

Minnesota: Two innocent people are dead and a child is in the hospital after cops chase alleged carjacker into wreck

New York: For shoplifting at Walgreens, cops chase truck into the Erie Canal, where passenger drowns

Inmate dies at Rikers, the fifth fatality in 2 weeks in New York City lockups

In New York, some police officers can drink, drive and avoid charges

‘Checked every compartment’: Ohio cops handcuff black man for driving Bentley, find nothing, then slap him with petty charge anyway

Ohio cops chased shoplifters into fatal wreck at cemetery, but video shows cops lied in their initial report — driver swerved around cop car, didn’t ram it

Ohio cop fired after allegedly responding to couple’s house while drunk

‘No provocation’: Oklahoma cops shot unarmed black man in the chest with hands up as he tried to save gunshot victim, lawsuit says

Oregon: 58-year-old man dies in Marion County Jail, marking third in-custody death in 2025

Over stolen vehicle, Texas cops chase perp into fatal wreck

Texas: 12 inmates have died this year in Harris County Jail custody [click ‘option 5’]

Texas: El Paso Police Department using excessive force

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

9/10/2025

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