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Miami jail officer faces rare prosecution under 'revenge porn' law 21 March 2022 A Miami-Dade corrections officer has been relieved of duty after he was arrested for allegedly posting explicit images of his ex-wife on Twitter. Teddy Joseph, 39, was charged last week under Florida’s “revenge...

Cop Convicted After Showing Up to Innocent Woman’s 911 Call for Help and Beating the Hell Out of Her 17 April 2022 As TFTP reported in March 2019, a Florida woman learned the hard way what calling 911 in a police state can look like. While there are certainly police officers who will...

Ex-prosecutor accused of soliciting prostitution in Miami 26 January 2022 A recent undercover prostitution sting involving officers from the Miami and Coral Gables police departments netted a former Miami-Dade County prosecutor. David Benjamin approached two undercover police officers...

Convicted former Hialeah, Florida, officer Jesus “Jesse” Manuel Menocal, Jr. Florida Ex-Cop Avoids Sex Offender Registry Despite Pleading Guilty to Coercing Women to Perform Sex Acts While He Was ‘On-Duty’ and Wearing a Uniform 5 March 2022 A former Hialeah, Florida police sergeant pleaded...

Jury Takes 15 Minutes to Convict Miami Cop of Sexually Assaulting Underage Family Member, 8, at Gunpoint 11 February 2022 A former lieutenant with the Miami-Dade Police Department accused of molesting an underage family member at gunpoint is now facing up to 48 years in prison after jurors...

Miami-Dade Police say cop who shot teen is a "victim," invoke Marsy's Law and won't name him 27 January 2022 Vito Corleone-Venisee, 15, was shot by a Miami-Dade police officer two weeks ago after a foot chase in Brownsville. His attorney said Vito was never a threat to police or the public...

EXCLUSIVE: Innocent Man Swarmed by Cops, Dragged from Car, Beaten Over a Bent License Plate 6 February 2022 In the land of the free, police will use any excuse, often ridiculous and asinine ones, to pull over citizens to conduct fishing expeditions for contraband or to outright extort them...

You Can't Solve Homelessness by Making It a Crime In an August ruling, Washington's Supreme Court found that a homeless plaintiff's truck qualified as his homestead. 17 January 2022 A man's car is his castle. So declared the Washington Supreme Court, more or less, when it ruled last August...

Horrifying Video Shows Cops Respond to Barking Complaint By Killing 8-Month Old Puppy 17 January 2022 Officers with the Miami-Dade police department are in the spotlight this week — not for saving children from sex trafficking rings — but for dumping 6 rounds into an 8-month old puppy. What...

Monroe County, Florida, deputies Trevor Pike (left) & Connor Curry (right) Florida deputies jailed, suspended after brawl with sailors 20 December 2021 Two sheriff’s deputies have been suspended after they were arrested for an off-duty brawl with U.S. sailors in Key West early Saturday...

Florida's Civil Asset Forfeiture Reforms Haven't Stopped the Shakedowns Despite civil asset forfeiture reforms in Florida, police are still finding ways to take people's stuff. 12 December 2021 On a May day in 2015, a task force of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents and Miami-Dade...

A man filmed a Massachusetts state trooper taking a nap in his car. Then he was retaliated against, he says. 10 December 2021 In a video posted online late last month, Nick Ford walked up to a Massachusetts state trooper’s cruiser on the side of the highway and knocked on the window. Slumped...

5 officers named: Michael Bloom Randy Carriel Jonathan Guzman Miguel Hernandez Brandon Williams Watch: Miami Cops Arrest Man for "Stealing" His Own Car 17 November 2021 On June 1, 2018, Samuel Scott Jr.'s 2006 black Jeep Compass was stolen from outside his aunt's house in Buena Vista...

Miami Police Officer Khadijha Hardemon Charged With Battery 10 November 2021 A Miami police officer has been charged with battery. Officer Khadijha Hardemon, 27, is accused of approaching a man at FTX Arena during a concert last week and poking him in the back of the neck. She then left...

“Javi is a bad cop protected by bad leaders ...” ... For instance, Miami attorney Leonard Fenn said he was shocked when an appeals-court judge sided with Ortiz and other officers involved in the violent arrest of his client, a man named Francois Alexandre, when police cleared the streets of...

Journalists are reexamining their reliance on a longtime source: The police 30 June 2020 For several weeks early this year, reporter Larry Hobbs struggled to nail down the story he was chasing. Police in his hometown of Brunswick, Ga., had offered few details about the death of a young...

Top Cop Who Presided Over Deadly Corruption in Houston Loses His New Job in Miami 6 Months After He Was Hired Art Acevedo provoked many complaints, but they paled in comparison to his prior record of negligence and obliviousness 12 October 2021 Art Acevedo, who presided over deadly corruption...

Colombian corruption case latest overseas stain for DEA 8 October 2021 For years, Capt. Juan Pablo Mosquera rose through the ranks of Colombia’s national police, earning accolades from his bosses on his way to becoming the trusted supervisor of a unit that worked hand-in-glove with U.S...

Cops Who Bragged About Being ‘Bad Boys’ Jailed for Cocaine Trafficking Conspiracy 19 September 2021 As John Dalberg-Acton famously stated, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men…” When society grants authority to people — who are...