a once-weekly roundup of ‘bad cops’,
usually on Wednesdays

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
Over traffic violation, California police chase motorcyclist into fatal wreck
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
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
For speeding, Virginia police chase motorcyclist into fatal wreck
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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