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FBI’s Crime Data Collection Still Being Stymied By Major Police Departments Not Reporting Crime Stats 12 July 2022 The FBI has switched to a new crime reporting system to collect crime data from all over the nation. Despite being given a long runway (the 2021 switch was announced in 2015)...

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...

LAPD Police Commission Enrages Police Union By Enacting Minor Changes To Pretextual Stops 14 March 2022 Pretextual stops are law enforcement at its most shameless. The laws and the courts have blessed this activity, which involves cops claiming stops are justified for one reason while using...

LAPD bomb technician's warnings were ignored before ill-fated fireworks detonation, report finds 25 February 2022 Before members of the LAPD bomb squad destroyed part of a South L.A. neighborhood by exploding a stash of illegal fireworks last summer, they repeatedly ignored warnings from one...

Emails Show The LAPD Cut Ties With The Citizen App After Its Started A Vigilante Manhunt Targeting An Innocent Person 9 February 2022 It didn't take long for Citizen -- the app that once wanted to be a cop -- to wear out its law enforcement welcome. The crime reporting app has made several...

Yet another example of why cops don't belong in schools: This L.A. School Called the Cops on Unvaccinated Teens Who Showed Up for Class The students' negative COVID tests weren't good enough for school administrators. 28 January 2022 When 15-year-old Ellah Nahum and a few other unvaccinated...

Police Misbehavior Is a Crucial Threat to Liberty Cops in Los Angeles killed a young girl in a department store dressing room by accident while firing at a suspect armed with nothing more than a bike lock. 14 January 2022 Whenever I write about police abuse and use-of-force issues, I often...

Cops Fired After Video Showed Them Ignore Robbery Call to Play Pokemon Go Instead 11 January 2022 Over the years, TFTP has reported on multiple instances of cops ignoring calls for various reasons. But LAPD officers Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell become the first cops on which we’ve reported...

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...

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...

LAPD shootings of unstable people wielding sharp objects a deadly problem 13 June 2021 On a North Hollywood street last year, Los Angeles Police Officer Daniel Harty watched through his rifle scope as 50-year-old Rommel Mendoza walked “erratically” toward him and a line of other officers...

Unsecured Data Leak Shows Predicitive Policing Is Just Tech-Washed, Old School Biased Policing 27 December 2021 Don't kid yourselves, techbros. Predictive policing is regular policing, only with confirmation bias built in. The only question for citizens is whether or not they want to pay tech...

Just kill 'em all! Keep shooting everyone in sight until their all dead! Then figure it out. This is the best video to watch. Skip to 27:47 for the action: Other videos: Coroner IDs girl killed by police in Los Angeles shooting 24 December 2021 The coroner’s office has...

Revealed: LAPD used ‘strategic communications’ firm to track ‘defund the police’ online 15 December 2021 The Los Angeles police department worked with a Polish firm that specializes in “strategic communications” to monitor social media and collect millions of tweets last year, including...

Facebook (Again) Tells Law Enforcement That Setting Up Fake Accounts Violates Its Terms Of Use 29 November 2021 Law enforcement agencies routinely engage in surveillance of social media accounts. Some of this is accomplished with third-party tools that use keywords and geofences to give cops...

Exclusive: LAPD partnered with tech firm that enables secretive online spying 17 November 2021 Records show LA police trialed social media surveillance tech from Voyager Labs, which claims its software can predict crimes and help monitor private messages. The Los Angeles police department...

Revealed: how LAPD targeted Nipsey Hussle’s street corner and store 7 November 2021 The Los Angeles police department targeted the late rapper Nipsey Hussle’s street corner and his The Marathon Clothing store before his death in 2019, labeling the intersection a “hot spot” for crime and...

LAPD officer arrested in theft of car a year ago from Orange County dealership 10 November 2020 A Los Angeles police officer has been arrested on suspicion of car theft by Orange police detectives in connection with the theft of a vehicle from a used-car dealership in October 2019, officials...

Two women said LAPD held them at gunpoint over U-Haul mixup Shibani Balsaver and Sheilanee Sen sued Los Angeles Police Department officers who mistakenly thought the truck was stolen. 7 May 2021 Two women are suing the Los Angeles Police Department, saying officers held them at gunpoint after...

Cop Who Avoided Jail for Kidnapping, Beating Ex-Wife, Arrested 2 Months Later for Breaking Woman’s Arm 24 October 2021 As TFTP has consistently reported, police officers in the United States have an exceedingly higher rate of domestic violence than any other occupation. The average rate of...