American police are out of control — 9/17

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.

Alabama cop on paid leave after causing wreck that killed 7-year-old is also being sued over beating of jail inmate who subsequently died

Arizona: Body-cam video shows a cop shot bicyclist nine times without warning him to drop his knife

Over suspected impaired driving, Arizona cops chase motorist into fatal wreck

California sues Los Angeles County over ‘inhumane’ conditions in its jail system

Colorado State Patrol trooper is arrested on child sexual exploitation charges

Florida: Tampa police officer suspended after kicking suspect in head during arrest

Georgia police officer who racked up hundreds of thousands of followers across social media has been arrested on domestic violence charges

ICE agent shoots and kills man near Chicago over “history of traffic violations”

Kentucky deputy kills man during “welfare check”

Student shot by cop after mistaken ID mishap during false alert of shooter at Naval Academy

Massachusetts: “Officer Sexy” faces federal child porn charges

Dozens of killings in Mississippi prisons go unpunished

Nevada settled lawsuit over man’s prison death for $4.6 million, lawyer says

Ohio: Controversial Cuyahoga County deputy unit tickets mostly black drivers, records show

Texas Sheriff not eager to explain why 70 people have died in his jail

Texas cops haven’t said why they chased motorist into wreck that killed woman in the other car

Over dangerous driving, Texas cops chase motorist 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

9/17/2025

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