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Stop Training Police Like They’re Joining the Military If policing is to change, the spotlight must turn toward police academies, where new recruits are first inculcated into the folkways of their profession. 10 June 2020 When I entered the Washington, D.C., police academy in 2016 as a...

Governor knew the circumstances around a deadly arrest, but kept quiet, records show 28 January 2022 Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat in a deep-red state, was immersed in a difficult reelection campaign when he received a text message from the head of the state police: Troopers had...

Albany Reserve Officer arrested for alleged sexual battery 3 January 2022 An Albany Reserve Officer has been arrested according to the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office. According to LPSO deputies started investigating a sexual battery complaint from a victim’s report that was made on...

Former Rio Grande City police detective sentenced to 14 years in prison 9 August 2019 A former Rio Grande City police detective who protected drug traffickers, sold law enforcement radios to smugglers and helped the Gulf Cartel hide murder weapons will spend 14 years in prison. U.S. District...

Judge: Baton Rouge Violated the First Amendment by Trying To Imprison a Professor for Sharing Body Camera Footage It was the city that put the footage in the public record in the first place. 10 January 2022 The city of Baton Rouge tried to throw a law professor in prison after he shared...

He was removed as interim chief because he was under investigation for sexual misconduct, but he might still be running the department in the interim, because apparently it doesn't matter all that much that he's still under investigation for sexual misconduct. Makes perfect sense to me...

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."...

Here's Scott County's deputy dog Greg Hill hard at work killing a guy. If he had followed proper procedures, this never would have happened: Mother says Bobby Mitchell, shot and killed by a Scott County deputy, was ‘loving and giving to a fault 21 November 2021 A potted plant thrives in...

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...

WATCH: Cops Smack Man’s Phone Out of His Hand, Flip Him Off, Then Beat the Hell Out of Him — For Filming 22 December 2021 Filming the police is entirely legal, in every state. However, all too often, we will see police officers overstep their authority and arrest, attack, and assault innocent...

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...

Louisiana Policy Intended to Reform Solitary Confinement Still Leaves People In Indefinite Lockdown Officials say the total number of people in restrictive housing has gone down, but the state doesn’t keep enough data to substantiate that claim. 15 December 2021 Kermit Parker — also known as...

A Judge Has Ordered Him Released From Prison—Twice. The Government Still Won't Set Him Free. Bobby Sneed's story highlights how far some government agents will go to keep people locked up, flouting the same legal standards they are charged with upholding. 13 December 2021 We don't know where...

Evangeline Parish Sheriff detective arrested, suspended after allegations of domestic abuse 12 December 2021 A deputy with the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office was arrested over the weekend on charges he assaulted his girlfriend. Evangeline Parish Sheriff Charles Guillory said Deputy Tommy...

FBI Called in After Video Shows Cops Shoot, Kill Baby While Killing His Father Who Held Him Hostage 26 November 2021 A tragedy unfolded in May when an hours-long police chase that began in Louisiana came to an end in Mississippi. After police cornered Eric Derrell Smith, 30, in the median of...

Former Louisiana Cop and K-9 Officer Sentenced to 20 Years for Sexually Abusing His Dog and Possession of Child Porn 25 November 2021 A judge in Louisiana this week sentenced a former police officer to spend up to 20 years behind bars for possessing child pornography and sexually abusing his...

After the DEA Stole $70,000 From This Filmmaker, He Got His Money Back, Plus a $15,000 Settlement Keddins Etienne's experience shows that bullies who seize innocent people's property tend to back down when their victims put up a fight. 5 November 2021 Before a federal drug agent stole nearly...

A Knoxville Woman Called 911. Instead of Getting Help, She Was Arrested and Placed in Immigration Detention for Months. Knox County's program authorizing such enforcement activities may have been instituted illegally 10 November 2021 In November 2020, Maira Oviedo-Granados of Knoxville...

Former Louisiana sheriff found guilty of sex crimes against young boys 9 November 2021 A five-term Louisiana sheriff was convicted Monday of multiple counts of sex crimes, including aggravated rape, and is expected to spend the rest of his life in prison. Jack Strain, who spent two decades...

‘Trooper of the Year’ Gets 17.5 Years for Producing Child Porn, Distributing It to His Own Network 8 November 2021 In 2018, Louisiana State Police Trooper of 18 years, Jason Boyet received one of the department’s highest honors—Trooper of the Year. Fast forward two years, and this hero cop...