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Eleventh Circuit Strips Immunity From Deputy Who Saved A War Vet From Self-Harm By Breaking His Neck 13 April 2022 One of the many symptoms of the many, deep-rooted, law enforcement sicknesses is how often officers decide to “help” people by harming them. That’s why some cities have chosen to...

11 Insanely Corrupt Speed-Trap Towns Caught stealing from motorists, these towns disbanded their police forces or even disbanded their governments altogether. 8 May, 2022 CASTLEBERRY, ALABAMA: The Birmingham News recently investigated the tiny town of Brookside, Alabama, a place "with no...

Sheriff Announces Warrant Against Deputy for Allegedly Helping Alabama Murder Suspect Escape Jail 2 May 2022 To those who worked with her over the years, Assistant Director of Corrections Vicki White was a well-respected member of the Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office in Alabama. Authorities...

Armed, black business owner mistaken for robber, punched by white Alabama cop 9 June 2020 A black business owner armed with a gun was mistaken for a robbery suspect when a police officer punched him in the face, Decatur police Chief Nate Allen said today. The situation happened nearly three...

Innocent Elderly Woman Pulled Over for No Reason as Cops Steal Her Life Savings, Prescription Medicine and Mock Her 18 April 2022 In December 2021, Jeanetta Jones, 62, had harmed no one, committed no crime, and was simply driving home when she was targeted by officers with the the notoriously...

D.C. Spent $2.5 Million in Pandemic Relief Funds on Parking Cops 24 March 2022 Pandemic funds used to hire parking cops, pay for prisons, build hotels. At a time when many residents were struggling due to job losses and loss of business, the District of Columbia ramped up efforts to wring...

Cops Who Sued Journalist For Reporting On Their Poor Handling Of A Rape Case Lose Their Defamation Lawsuit 18 March 2022 As Omar (RIP, Michael K. Williams) pointed out, using only his whistling and his sawed-off shotgun, “If you come at the king, you’d best not miss.” The “king” of First...

A Notorious Prison Tech Giant Is Poised to Cash In on Pell Grants for Incarcerated People Millions of dollars in college financial aid will soon be available to prisoners. Aventiv has taken note. 8 February 2022 Jerome “JJ” Taylor needed just one more humanities credit to earn his bachelor’s...

A Tiny Alabama Town Is Growing Its Police Force by Fining Everybody in Sight Brookside officers have been accused of fabricating violations and are being sued. 19 January 2022 Brookside, Alabama, has a population of less than 1,500 people. For most of the past decade it saw little crime—only...

'Functionally Illiterate' Death Row Inmate Couldn't Understand a Form Letting Him Choose His Execution Method Alabama allows death row inmates to pick an execution method other than lethal injection. But this intellectually disabled prisoner didn't receive proper accommodation, a judge says. 11...

Alabama police officer charged with murder of pregnant girlfriend 9 January 2022 A seven-months pregnant Alabama woman was found dead Friday morning and her police officer boyfriend has been charged with her murder. David Michael McCoy, a 28-year-old off-duty officer with the Huntsville...

Man Charged in Wife’s Hit-and-Run Death After Stopping Her From Drunk Driving Sues Police 21 December 2021 An Alabama man who was charged with manslaughter over his wife’s hit-and-run death is suing a local police officer for defamation. Al.com reports Jason Todd, 42, has filed a lawsuit...

Scottsboro police officer charged with aggravated assault, child abuse 13 December 2021 A Scottsboro police officer was arrested Monday on assault and child abuse charges, according to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO). Jail records show Ryan Benton Manning, 33, of Scottsboro, was...

Nashville DA's Office Seeks to Vacate Claude Garrett's 29-Year-Old Murder Conviction 24 November 2021 Almost 30 years after Claude Garrett was accused of setting a fire that killed his girlfriend, Lorie Lance, the district attorney’s office in Nashville, Tennessee, has concluded that there is...

Mississippi police chief charged with DUI , TV station reports; it wasn’t his first time to be accused of DUI 7 November 2021 A Mississippi police chief has been arrested for driving under the influence a TV station reported Sunday. John Griffith, the police chief of Enterprise, Mississippi...

Dual arrests of Colorado sheriff leave 1,800-square-mile county with two deputies — and the coroner filling in as top cop 5 November The coroner is now the top law enforcement official in Cheyenne County thanks to a 144-year-old Colorado law that elevated him to the position after the sitting...

Alabama Supreme Court Rules Law Enforcement Can Withhold Almost All Records Indefinitely 12 October 2021 Here's what you need to know about Alabama and its public records laws before we head to a depressing state Supreme Court opinion that makes everything worse: Alabama has one of the...

Did cops murder this woman and stash her body in one of their vans in their parking lot? Woman Missing for 2 Weeks, Found Dead in Police Van, In Dept’s Parking Lot—Family Demanding Video 12 October 2021 If you are looking for a parking lot or building with the most surveillance cameras in...

Journalists are reexamining their reliance on a longtime source: The police 30 June 2020 For several weeks early this year, reporter Larry Hobbs struggled to nail down the story he was chasing. Police in his hometown of Brunswick, Ga., had offered few details about the death of a young...

Woman Convicted of Manslaughter, Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison for Having a Miscarriage 14 October 2021 Brittney Poolaw has been sitting in an Oklahoma jail for more than a year and a half. She will spend still more time behind bars, having been recently convicted of first-degree...