a recurring roundup of ‘bad cops’

ICE detainees death toll reaches 16 amid concerns over ‘horrendous’ conditions
Arizona: Ex-Scottsdale cop who had sex on duty faced sexual assault allegations
California: Cops haven’t said why they chased vehicle into fatal wreck
California: In custody death at Shasta County Jail discovered by deputies
Florida: Ex-Miami-Dade ‘Officer of the Year’ arrested for cosplaying as cop
Illinois: Aggravated battery trial begins for ex-cop also accused of murder
Chicago approves $90M payout over disgraced ex-sergeant who framed hundreds for drug crimes
Maryland: Over traffic violation, cops chase motorcyclist into fatal wreck
New York: Four prison officers plead guilty to manslaughter in videotaped beating
Man arrested by ICE dies in jail cell in Long Island, New York
New York: Man found dead in North Tonawanda jail cell
New York: ICE officer caught on video attacking woman is placed on paid leave
North Carolina: ‘Be still’: State trooper punched disabled man he knew was suffering a seizure, dragged him across concrete, lawsuit says
‘She had no legs. Why would they restrain her?’: a Cleveland woman dies in custody
South Carolina: 2 arrested, including highway patrol trooper, in death of 4-year-old
Seattle problem cop suspended for illegal stop-and-frisk of Black youth
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
9/27/2025

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