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Federal Court Allows Protesters’ First Amendment Suit Against Violent Boston Cops To Continue 18 July 2022 A lawsuit filed by four protesters against three Boston police officers can move forward, following a federal judge’s determination that the cops’ counterarguments were too ridiculous to...

City Of Chicago, Chicago PD Officers Sued Over Their Use Of Questionable ShotSpotter Technology 28 July 2020 ShotSpotter has made a name for itself (and not a good one!) by telling cops its sensors and mics can convert soundwaves into actionable intel. It has become beloved by some cops...

Former Iowa Jailer Had Sex with Inmate Multiple Times in Utility Closet and Recreation Yard: Authorities 1 August 2022 A former jail employee in Iowa was arrested and charged with multiple crimes for allegedly having a sexual relationship with an inmate that lasted for several months. Kayla...

Cop Official Complains Cops Are Unfairly Hated, Refuses To Recognize Law Enforcement’s Lack Of Accountability 11 August 2022 This op-ed for Police1, written by longtime law enforcement officer/official Booker Hodges (currently the chief of the Bloomington, MN police department), may have its...

US Postal Service Sued For Seizing ‘Defund Police’ Facemasks 6 June 2022 Two years ago, just as the COVID pandemic was beginning to radically transform day-to-day life for nearly everyone on the planet, the United States Postal Service decided to protect cops from passive criticism. One month...

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...

Ex-St. Paul cop gets 6 years in prison for excessive force in K-9 confrontation 21 May 2021 A federal court judge on Friday sentenced former St. Paul police officer Brett Palkowitsch to six years in prison for using excessive force during an arrest involving a police dog. Palkowitsch had...

Cottage Grove, Minnesota, convicted pedophile & school resource officer Adam Pelton Disgraced School Cop Pleads Guilty to Sexually Assaulting At Least 7 Children He Was Tasked With ‘Protecting’ 2 April 2022 While most parents of school children in the United States will take comfort in...

Nothing Has Changed Since George Floyd Died, US Cops Still Kill Someone Every 8 Hours 3 April 2022 It has been nearly two years since Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd. At the time, Floyd’s death would set off massive protests across the country as politicians and political pundits played...

He Spent an Extra Two Years in Prison Because He Could Not Find a Place Where He Was Legally Allowed To Live New York's residence restrictions for sex offenders raise the question of how irrational a policy must be to fail "rational basis" review 7 March 2022 Since 2005, New York has...

Fired Louisville, Kentucky, police detective Brett Hankison Brett Hankison Is Not the Only Cop Who Acted Recklessly the Night Breonna Taylor Was Killed The former detective's trial should not obscure the responsibility of the drug warriors who authorized, planned, and executed the deadly raid...

Arizona House Committee Approves Bill To Criminalize Filming Cops on the Job "You'll have a bunch of people who plead to avoid trial or go broke trying to vindicate their rights." 22 February 2022 The Arizona House Appropriations Committee on Monday green-lit a bill that would criminalize...

Fatal police shootings in 2021 set record since The Post began tracking, despite public outcry 9 February 2022 Police shot and killed at least 1,055 people nationwide last year, the highest total since The Washington Post began tracking fatal shootings by officers in 2015 — underscoring the...

Austin cuts police budget by 1/3 amid national 'defund' push The Austin City Council has voted to cut one-third of the city's $434 million police budget amid national calls for “defunding” law enforcement in favor of spending more money on social services 13 August 2020 In a unanimous vote...

Banning the Type of Police Raids That Killed Amir Locke Is Just a Start Police violence expert Samuel Sinyangwe says it’s time to rethink more common types of raids, too. 12 February 2022 Amir Locke, a 22-year-old aspiring musician, was sleeping on a couch in his cousin’s Minneapolis home on...

Americans Want Police Reform, Not Abolition. So Did This Slain NYPD Officer. Despite a binary media narrative, the vast majority of the U.S. is in favor of quality, accountable policing. 3 February 2022 "My perspective on police and the way they police really bothered me," wrote Jason Rivera...

Chief: MPD Officer Fatally Shoots Man Holding Handgun At Downtown Apt. Building 2 February 2022 Minneapolis police say an officer shot and killed a man holding a handgun while executing a search warrant at a downtown apartment building Wednesday morning. While officials have yet to release...

This Program Aims to Correct the Culture of Acquiescence That Allowed Derek Chauvin to Kill George Floyd "Active bystandership" training encourages officers to stop their colleagues from violating people's rights. 31 January 2022 The federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers...

Minnesota sheriff was driving 126 mph with no seatbelt at time of DUI crash Governor joins chorus of calls for David Hutchinson to resign 21 January 2022 The sheriff of the Minnesota county that includes Minneapolis was driving over 120 mph and was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of his...

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...