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Retired Baltimore, Maryland, police officer James Weems, Jr. Retired Baltimore police officer accused of molesting children at wife's day care 26 July 2022 At the once busy Lil Kidz Kastle daycare in Owings Mills, the playground equipment sits empty and the doors are locked as police...

Cop Formerly Charged Over Murder of Freddie Gray Now in Charge of Investigating The Same Department 12 August 2022 In 2015, the world would be exposed to the horrifying practice of “nickel rides” following the death of Freddie Gray. Out of the six officers charged in Gray’s death, Lieutenant...

Disturbing Video Shows Cop Run Red Light, Kill Innocent Man Riding a Scooter 12 July 2022 The family of 58-year-old Terry Harrell is grieving and demanding justice after he was plowed over by a police officer running red lights while violating procedure. The crash is now under investigation...

LGBTQ Pride Organizers Weigh Multiple Threats, From Police Brutality to Vigilante Violence Between angry cops, hateful politicians, and plotting right-wing extremists, they have their hands full. 24 June 2022 Seattle’s Pride Parade, among the largest in the country, will return this weekend...

Rockville, Maryland, police officer & child porn aficionado Daniel Morozewicz Decorated Officer Admits to Running Horrifying Child Porn Ring in Which Infants Were Sexually Abused 5 June 2022 When residents of Rockville, Maryland saw Daniel Morozewicz, 38, patrol their neighborhoods, they...

*burp* Off-duty Hillside, NJ police officer and Toms River, NJ resident charged with Vehicular Homicide in Tinton Falls, NJ crash 18 March 2022 A Hillside Police Officer has been arrested and charged for veering off the Garden State Parkway in Tinton Falls last October, while off-duty and...

Kids Are Back in Schools. Cops Shouldn't Be. Police are being asked to handle kids broken by failures of public schooling. 16 March 2022 It's no secret that bad policy all too often breeds more bad policy. After two years of pandemic-related disruptions to public schooling and the lives of...

Survey Says Portland Cops Should Be Locked Out Of Recordings Until After They’ve Written Reports, Answered Investigators 11 March 2022 The Department of Justice has been keeping an eye on the Portland (OR) Police Bureau (PPB) for nearly a decade now, finding that officers routinely engage in...

Cop Trainer Encouraging Cops To Run Facial Recognition Searches On People During Traffic Stops 11 February 2022 Cops are out there giving each other bad advice. An instructor for Street Cop Training -- a New Jersey based provider of officer training programs -- is telling officers it's ok to...

Civil Rights Suit Filed by Family of Black Teen Who Died in Police Custody Advances: Derek Chauvin’s Expert Is One of the Defendants 19 January 2022 Long before George Floyd’s murder sparked international attention to dangers of what is known as the prone position—the form of police restraint...

Maryland Court Says Baltimore Prosecutors Can't Hide Their 'Do Not Call' List Of Bad Cops From The Public 7 January 2022 Changes in law, court decisions, and transparency efforts have resulted in the public release of names of officers prosecutors consider too unreliable to ask to testify in...

Baltimore Police Union Blames City's Murder Rate On Defunding Efforts That Never Happened 6 January 2022 In response to the killing of a Baltimore police officer, the head of the Baltimore police union, Mike Mancuso, has decided to accuse everyone who doesn't love cops as being responsible...

He Was a Board Member of the Oath Keepers. Now He’s Holding State-Approved Trainings for Law Enforcement in Texas. Richard Mack wants your sheriff to defy the government. 29 October 2021 On a glorious Saturday morning in October, about 75 people are gathered inside an airy warehouse on the...

"... Boston police spent $627,000 on this equipment by dipping into money seized in connection with alleged crimes." In other words, steal from the citizens, then spend the money on "spy tech" so you can find more stuff to steal. Boston police bought spy tech with a pot of money hidden from...

After Judge Suspends Prison Sentence, Ex-Cop Gets House Arrest for Raping Drunk Woman 29 November 2021 Fifteen years: That’s how long a fired police officer could have spent in prison for rape, but a judge suspended most of the sentence and let the defendant serve the rest another way...

All of these victims are black -- one has to wonder if they treat white crime victims the same way? Baltimore Police Department Sued For Seizing Phones, Cash, And Jewelry From Crime Victims Recovering From Shootings 23 November 2021 It's not enough that law enforcement can seize property if...

Rapist Baltimore officer has prison sentence suspended by judge claiming he caused ‘no psychological damage’ 24 November 2021 A police officer in Maryland who was convicted of raping a woman after offering her a ride home from a bar and for assaulting another woman has had his prison...

Ex Baltimore County cops Robert Vicosa & Tia Bynum Former Maryland police officer found dead with children believed to be the daughters he allegedly abducted, police say 19 November 2021 A former Baltimore County police officer and two children believed to be his daughters he allegedly...

School Officials Welcome Homeland Security Surveillance After Student Fights Administrators in a Maryland school district say they wanted help monitoring school safety — but sweeping surveillance could land kids in gang databases and families in deportation proceedings 9 November 2021 In late...

55 Percent of Police Killings Are Misclassified as Other Causes of Death 1 October 2021 More than half of police killings aren't labeled as such, according to new research published in The Lancet. The study looks at roughly 40 years of fatal police violence in the U.S. The main finding...