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

Another person dies in ICE custody
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
Kentucky cop gets seventh lawsuit after breaking woman’s arm
Former Western Mass. reverend wanted on child sex abuse charges arrested in Florida
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
Ohio cop fired after allegedly responding to couple’s house while drunk
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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