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Ex-Federal Correctional Officer Now on ‘Other Side of the Bars’ for Saying He ‘Never Had Sexual Contact’ with Inmate He Engaged in Sex Acts with 35 Times 16 August 2022 A 54-year-old former federal correctional officer the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles was sentenced to time...

The FBI Kept Tabs on Mort Sahl's Jokes About It, and Hoover Thought Sahl Was a 'Sick Man' The late standup comedian's FBI file says he "ridiculed the FBI, law enforcement, and high public officials, beyond the bounds of good humor." 30 June 2022 Government records show that FBI Director J...

No Charges for FBI Agents Who ‘Covered’ for Child Rapist with 500 Victims, Allowing Him to Continue to Prey on Kids 30 May 2022 A massive case involving over a hundred women and girls shined a light on the horrid sexual abuse and cover-up that took place within the USA Gymnastics program. For...

FBI provides Chicago police with fake online identities for "Social Media Exploration" team Internal documents also reveal that police can take over informants’ social media accounts and pose as them online. 20 May 2022 Brian Campbell couldn’t sleep. It was May 31, 2020, and demonstrations...

Yes, It’s Difficult To Change Cop Culture, But Let’s Not Pretend It’s Too Expensive Or Impossible To Achieve Quickly 1 April 2022 The US Department of Justice has entered into many consent decrees with many, many abusive law enforcement agencies. These decrees have the force of law, supported...

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...

Los Angeles County D.A. modifies policy on juvenile cases in wake of controversy 16 February 2022 Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón has modified his blanket ban on trying juveniles as adults due to a pending state Supreme Court case and continuing backlash over a decision to allow...

54 current, former CHP officers charged with overtime fraud at East L.A. station 17 February 2022 California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta on Thursday announced theft and fraud charges against 54 former and current California Highway Patrol officers in connection with an alleged multiyear overtime...

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...

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...

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...

LA County asks judge to hold Sheriff Villanueva in contempt for ignoring subpoenas The embattled sheriff has ignored three subpoenas from the Civilian Oversight Commission. 12 January 2022 The county of Los Angeles asked a judge to hold Sheriff Alex Villanueva in contempt for ignoring three...

Push on to separate coroners from law enforcement in California The Golden State is currently one of only three states that allow counties to combine the offices of coroner and sheriff 6 January 2022 A new bill introduced in the California Assembly this week would separate coroner offices...

WATCH: Police Chief Drives Up to Fight in Parking Lot, Randomly Shoots Innocent Bystander 3 January 2022 In Little Rock, Arkansas, 22-year-old Kelecia Mayo is fighting for her life after being critically wounded by a bullet fired from the police chief’s weapon. She was shot by police for...

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...