American police are out of control — 9/3

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.

Famed Walking Tall sheriff Bufford Pusser killed his wife, and got away with it, investigators say

Police ride-alongs left US teens as young as 14 vulnerable to abuse, investigation alleges

California: Torrance Police Department to pretend to overhaul policing policies after racist text scandal

Over traffic violation, California police chase motorcyclist into fatal wreck

‘I ain’t no damn criminal!’: Colorado police swarm sleeping black dad with guns, taser him in front of his children after he removed son from hospital to seek alternative care

Connecticut: Former state police sergeant arrested following investigation into viral YouTube confrontation

Guards at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” deployed teargas and engaged in a mass beating of detainees to quell a mini-uprising

Georgia cop is accused of sex crimes in school, church parking lots

Georgia police chase suspected drunk driver into fatal wreck

Over alleged “erratic driving,” Georgia police chase motorist into fatal wreck

Idaho: Canyon County Court charges Nampa Catholic priest with rape of a minor

Former Michigan police officer caught in child sex trafficking sting enters guilty plea

Minnesota: Alleged hit-and-run driver is police chaplain

Missouri police use PIT maneuver to kill drink driver

Ohio: Cleveland officer, Portage County deputy charged in attack on man they mistakenly believed was undocumented immigrant

Oklahoma: Police have not said why they chased motorist into fatal wreck

Pennsylvania cop is charged for assaulting a handcuffed 16-year-old during a hospital transport

Prison chaplain at ICE facility in Pennsylvania accused of sexually abusing immigration detainee

Pennsylvania: Lancaster woman secures $120k settlement for 2020 wrongful arrest, racial profiling

South Carolina: Police chase motorist into fatal wreck

Texas police sergeant is accused of sexually harassing teenage Starbucks barista, placed on paid leave

For speeding, Virginia police chase motorcyclist into fatal wreck

Seattle Police Officers Guild President says DC is a “blueprint” of Trump’s future public safety actions across the nation

Washington police chase alleged drunk driver 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

9/3/2025

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