kansas

Which Is More Scandalous: The Training for Armed Teachers or the Training for Police Officers? On average, the minimum requirement for cops is about 650 hours, compared to about 1,300 hours for barbers. 1 August 2022 A recent New York Times story about armed teachers casts doubt on the...

Prosecutors Lose Drug Conviction After Appeals Court Reminds Them They Can’t Ignore The Presumption Of Innocence 2 June 2022 There are several things prosecutors can’t do when handling criminal trials. They still do them, of course. They suborn perjury. They deny defendants access to...

Police Could’ve Used a No-Knock Raid Correctly, Instead, They Knocked, Then Shot & Killed a 2yo Hostage 5 April 2022 After the death of George Floyd in May of 2020, the nation engaged in fierce debates about how to curb the problem of excessive force in the land of the free. After massive...

Police Chief ‘Appalled’ After On-Duty Police Officer Is Accused of Raping 20-Year-Old Woman Who Was ‘Incapable of Giving Consent’ 9 March 2022 A Kansas police officer was kicked off the force and taken into custody after a young woman came forward to accuse him of raping her several years...

How many people will be murdered by this irresponsible stupidity? The ATF Suggests You Call SWAT Raids on Your Exes for Valentine's Day Ever wonder where people get the idea that police are thin-skinned bullies? 14 February 2022 The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF)...

Spring Hill, Kansas, officer/intimidater Shaun Whitesell (left) & Olathe, Kansas, officer/dog killer Mark Cantrell Court Grants Qualified Immunity To Officer Who Told Couple To Take Down Facebook Post About Off-Duty Cop Who Shot Their Dog 7 February 2022 This case -- sent to us by Eric...

Kansas and California Cops Used Civil Forfeiture to Stage Armored Car Heists, Stealing Money Earned by Licensed Marijuana Businesses The Institute for Justice argues that the seizures violated state law, federal law, and the U.S. Constitution. 18 January 2022 Because the continued federal...

Top-down mismanagement! After the crooked cops bust them, the crooked jailers take over. "... the AP revealed that more than 100 Bureau of Prisons workers have been arrested, convicted or sentenced for crimes since the start of 2019, including a warden charged with sexually abusing an inmate."...

Off-duty Kan. police officer arrested for alleged DUI, speeding 4 January 2022 Authorities are investigating a drunk driving arrest involving an off-duty police officer. On New Year's Eve, the Clearwater Police Department notified Wichita Police officials that they had arrested an off-duty...

How many law enforcement and human services agencies can drop the ball on one case? Meanwhile AT LEAST SEVEN children continued to be abused for TWO DECADES! July, 2004, molestations reported to Wyoming Department of Family Services July, 2007, Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office, Colorado...

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...

Prison Phone Companies Are Recording Attorney-Client Calls Across the US Lawyers say their conversations with incarcerated people are being recorded and analyzed by private companies in at least nine US states. 13 December 2021 For years, many of Brooklyn Defender Services’ incarcerated...

With federal oversight in short supply, state AGs step in to probe troubled police 23 November 2021 Police in Aurora, Colo., shot 20-year-old Jamaal Bonner in the back three times with a submachine gun during a sting operation, killing him. Four years later, the department formally apologized...

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...

Tiny wrists in cuffs: How police use force against children 19 October 2021 Royal Smart remembers every detail: the feeling of the handcuffs on his wrists. The panic as he was led outside into the cold March darkness, arms raised, to face a wall of police officers pointing their guns. He was...

Wichita police detective placed on leave after reported disorderly conduct 13 November 2020 A Wichita Police Department detective has been placed on administrative leave after he was charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct. Detective Brent Huhman was charged on Friday, Nov. 13, by the...

WATCH: Teen Left Brain-Dead After Cop Shot Her in the Head Over a Fight at School 1 October 2021 The family of Mona Rodriguez is grieving today after their 18-year-old daughter was shot in the head by a Long Beach Unified School District police officer. Rodriguez, who was unarmed and...