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Appeals Court Says Prosecutors Who Issued Fake Subpoenas To Crime Victims Aren't Shielded By Absolute Immunity 6 May 2020 For years, the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office in Louisiana issued fake subpoenas to witnesses and crime victims. Unlike subpoenas used in ongoing prosecutions...

No Absolute Immunity For Sheriff, Prosecutor Who Created False Testimony That Locked Up An Innocent Man For 16 Years2 11 May 2022 The thing about absolute immunity is it tends to be absolute. Except when it isn’t. This immunity — one that protects prosecutors, judges, and certain politicians...

Multiple Cops Ignore Citizens Flagging Them Down to Report a Rape Taking Place on the Sidewalk in Front of Them Multiple police officers were alerted to an ongoing rape which unfolded in public in front of them, and none of them acted. 16 August 2022 If ever you thought police in the United...

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...

*burp* Drunken New Orleans police officer crashes cruiser in Warehouse District, agency says Breath test finds his blood alcohol concentration more than double limit for driving in La. 3 August 2022 Drunk on duty, a New Orleans police officer crashed his marked cruiser into several cars in...

Drunk Cop Gets His Car Airborne, Crashes Into Home, Injuring 2 People, Killing 2 Dogs — Gets Slap on Wrist 2 July 2022 Imagine for a moment, that your job is to prosecute those who dangerously drive drunk and cause harm to others. Now, imagine that you betrayed that job by dangerously driving...

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...

*burp* Lafayette Police officer facing drunk driving charges in Iberville Parish 6 May 2022 A Lafayette Police officer who was involved in a crash in Iberville Parish last month is now facing charges related to drunk driving, according to a jail booking report. Todd Alcorn, 51, a...

Fifth Circuit Says No Immunity For Officer Who Framed A Man By Claiming The Man Framed Himself 14 April 2022 This reads like a film script and plays like a farce. It is one of the most insane decisions you’ll ever read. And it’s not because the Fifth Circuit Appeals Court did something...

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...

Cop Who Arrested High Schooler on 'Terrorizing' Charges for Class Joke Gets Qualified Immunity A judge's blistering dissent is a reminder that this issue does not have to be a partisan one. 21 April 2022 A police officer who questionably arrested a high school student on "terrorizing" charges...

For 20 Years, This Prosecutor Had a Secret Job Working For the Judges Who'd Decide His Cases One of Ralph Petty's victims is trying to hold him accountable, but she will have to overcome prosecutorial immunity. 12 April 2022 Ralph Petty worked as an assistant district attorney in Midland...

The spineless wimp cop is suing as "John Doe": https://www.aclu.org/cases/doe-v-mckesson Louisiana Supreme Court Allows Police Officer's Lawsuit Against Black Lives Matter Organizer DeRay Mckesson didn’t cause or encourage violence against police in Baton Rouge in 2016. The court says he can...

FBI Will Publish Long-Delayed Police Use-of-Force Data Lack of participation from police departments has stymied the FBI's national use-of-force database for the past three years, but FBI Director Christopher Wray said a required threshold has finally been met. 22 March 2022 FBI Director...

Video Shows California Cops Arresting Mom and Grandma for Filming Them Mariah Herefored says police in Hemet, California, smacked cell phone cameras out of her and her mother's hands and violently arrested them 8 March 2022 Police officers in Hemet, California, arrested a mother and...

Man Suffers Heart Attack, Dies, After Being Cuffed For Cussing at Officer and Trying to Shut his Door Cops in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, were searching for a theft suspect on the property who was not there when they arrested William Walls and caused his death. 8 March 2022 Getting annoyed with...

The FBI Seized Almost $1 Million From This Family—and Never Charged Them With a Crime "It's completely changed my belief in fairness," says Amy Sterner Nelson. 18 February 2022 Carl Nelson and Amy Sterner Nelson's pre-pandemic lives look a lot different than the ones they live now. There are...

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, August 12, 2021 Former DEA Special Agent Sentenced to Over 13 Years in Prison for Corruption-Related Charges [Press Release] A former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent was sentenced today to 160...

Serial Child Rapist Cop, Who Used His Badge to Rape Children, Gets 40 Years in a Cage 3 February 2022 All too often, as frequent readers of the Free Thought Project can attest, sexually abusive cops get slaps on their wrists for heinous and vile crimes. Even when these officers abuse...

Derek Chauvin trial expert calls Hammond police use of force among ‘most abusive’ he’s seen Video shows future police chief beating Black man in custody 27 January 2022 One of the nation’s leading experts in police procedure told the Hammond City Council on Tuesday that video of white police...