American police are out of control — 9/24

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.

LAPD fired over a thousand projectiles at protesters in a single day

California: Man freed after 41 years in prison, as Orange County prosecutors admit their office failed to turn over evidence

California: Ex-Antioch cop guilty of conspiring with other officers to violate residents’ civil rights

California cops shoot and kill man carrying brick and shovel

Innocent driver killed as Florida police chase burglary suspects into wreck

Over traffic violation, Georgia police chase motorist into fatal wreck

7 minutes: Kansas county jail inmate killed by restraint similar to George Floyd

Louisiana: A brutal beating by deputies was caught on tape. They were cleared by state police anyway.

Over traffic violation, Maine police chase motorist into fatal wreck

With 5 deaths in NYPD custody this year, public defenders ask who’s policing the police?

‘Illegal kidnapping’: ‘Rogue’ Texas Deputy lied about having warrant to arrest black woman then took her key and ransacked her home

3 killed, 5 hurt as Milwaukee police chase motorist into wreck over traffic violations

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

9/24/2025

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