American police are out of control — 9/27

a recurring roundup of ‘bad cops’

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

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

‘Somebody help me!’: South Carolina officer on leave after bystander video shows several cops piling on black boy, aggressively arresting him for selling roses In Circle K

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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2 responses to “American police are out of control — 9/27”

  1. Claude Reigns Avatar
    Claude Reigns

    This was surprising excellent:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b7CSQqf3Bc

    I had no interest in the real story as it happened, but this was a really good watch

    1. Doug Holland Avatar

      I must’ve had even less interest in the real story than you, since the video reminds me of nothing. Looks like fun, though. “I didn’t do anything wrong… really.”

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