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Serial abuser & ex ICE agent John "Johnny" Jacob Olivas How a woman who was assaulted by a federal agent sought justice against her abuser 22 January 2022 John Olivas’ explosive temper frightened his girlfriend. In fits of rage, the federal agent would slam her into a wall and choke her...

Deputy Dog Andy McClure with his prey -- what a gut! Idaho Deputy Under Investigation for Tasing 78-Year-Old Man Who Was Left Bloody Following Arrest 3 June 2021 The family of an elderly man in a tiny Idaho city claims that a county sheriff’s deputy threw him to the ground and shocked him...

Do Minnesota cases show it’s getting easier to convict cops? 18 January 2022 First, it was Mohamed Noor — convicted for shooting an unarmed woman who approached his police SUV. Then it was Derek Chauvin, found guilty of murder for using his knee to pin George Floyd to a Minneapolis street as...

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...

New Illinois Law Says Cops Need A Warrant To Grab Data From (Some) Third Parties 12 January 2022 The state of Illinois continues to provide more protection than the US Constitution. Its privacy laws exceed what has been determined to be "reasonable" violations of privacy by decades of court...

Former Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officer & murderer Shannon Kepler Ex-Oklahoma Officer Is Sentenced in Killing of Daughter’s Boyfriend Shannon Kepler, who had served as a police officer in Tulsa for 24 years, was tried five times before a federal jury found him guilty of the 2014 murder of...

Idaho Deputy Claimed Famous Speedskater Died of Mad Cow Disease. The Truth May Be Much Weirder. 6 January 2022 A married sheriff’s deputy who emigrated to the U.S. from Russia in 2007 has been implicated in the bizarre death of a champion speedskater who she claimed had wasted away after...

"Our findings reaffirm that law enforcement not only failed to protect protestors, but actively put them in harm’s way by enabling and encouraging predominantly white, right-wing armed civilians and militia groups that night. These actions escalated tensions, heightening rather than diffusing a...

Behind the Violence at Rikers, Decades of Mismanagement and Dysfunction For years, New York City officials have presided over shortcuts and blunders that have led to chaos in one of America’s most expensive jail complexes. 31 December 2021 The leaders of the New York City Department of...

An Iowa DNR officer shot and killed 19-year-old Shane Jensen His mother says ‘it just destroyed’ her. 21 November 2021 Inside a display case in Krystal Wagner's living room is a pair of boots, an unfinished pack of Marlboro cigarettes opened four years ago and bloody coins. The items were...

Five LAPD killings in nine days: teen’s death caps brutal year of police shootings 30 December 2021 The killing of Valentina Orellana-Peralta, a 14-year-old who died in her mother’s arms after police shot her in a department store dressing room, has sparked outrage and renewed scrutiny of the...

Officials: Florida deputy lied about being in coma, defrauded coworkers out of sick days 23 December 2021 A Florida woman has been accused of defrauding the sheriff's office where she worked. According to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Trent Kellee Freeman, 38, of Bronson, on two...

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampart_scandal The Rampart scandal involved widespread police corruption in the Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (CRASH) anti-gang unit of the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart Division in the late 1990s. More than 70 police officers...

A Perfect Storm of Stupidity! If any one of the bozos pictured below had half a brain, this idiotic fiasco never would have happened. It all started with Clarkston's local "Karen", Jodi Lynn Brunelle (not sure which Karen, if either, is Jodi Lynn Brunelle) Clarkston, Washington, police...

You’d Better Watch Out: The Surveillance State Has a Naughty List, and You’re On It 25 December 2021 Tracking you based on your health status Tracking you based on your face Tracking you based on your behavior Tracking you based on your spending and consumer activities Tracking you based on...

Big Trouble in Little Rock A Reformist Black Police Chief Faces an Uprising of the Old Guard 18 December 2021 1 - Backlash: On the morning of May 28, 2020, a Black sergeant with the Little Rock, Arkansas, Police Department woke up, turned on the news, and saw the George Floyd video for the...

Kyle Rittenhouse Didn’t Act Alone: Law Enforcement Must Be Held Accountable The massive show of force from 40 law enforcement agencies in Kenosha didn’t make anyone safer. 19 November 2021 For two weeks, we’ve heard trial testimony and seen evidence of the events that occurred on August 25...

Solano deputies, Vacaville councilmember promote anti-government militia 4 February 2021 Daniel “Cully” Pratt of the Solano County Sheriff’s Office has a side business making decorative wood carvings. Some feature characters from movies starring his brother Chris Pratt, like “Jurassic World”...

Vallejo police secretly tested ‘dystopian’ facial recognition tool 13 April 2021 Members of the Vallejo Police Department secretly used facial recognition technology developed by Clearview AI, a company embroiled in public controversy for allegedly violating personal privacy laws in several...

Cops who are "disrespected" are disrespected for good reasons. Why any police administrator in his right mind would try to recruit other departments' brutes and bully boys is beyond me. 3 stars or 4? Confused? Make up your mind! Sheriffs Making Much Ado 9 November 2021 This week...