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WATCH: Unarmed Woman Executed by Cop On Her Way to Work Over Alleged Speeding Ticket—Lawsuit 29 December 2021 In June of 2020, family and friends of Hannah Fizer, 25, were shocked to learn that their beloved daughter and friend had been killed during a stop over an alleged speeding violation...

Investigation: Accidental shootings like one in Iowa show police training gaps 11 December 2019 When an Iowa mother tried to take her child from her husband during an argument on a snowy sidewalk in 2015, an officer stepped in to stop the scuffle, firing his weapon as a dog approached. The...

Iowa police body camera video is sometimes revealing — if the public is allowed to see it 1 February 2021 When an Iowa City police officer in 1996 accidentally shot and killed Eric Shaw, an artist working late in his father’s office, Troy Kelsay wasn’t the one who fired the gun but knew...

Disgraced Cop Gets NO JAIL Despite Admitting to the Repeated Rape of a Child 19 December 2021 When he was just 13-years-old, the victim of Byrnes Mill officer Ryan Shomaker was raped. The abuse would last years as the boy transitioned from a middle school student to high school, and this...

David Ellis (left), Debra Ellis (center), Justin Gilbert (right) Three employees of Des Moines bail bond company charged in yearlong investigation of prostitution and fraud 17 December 2021 Three people were out on bond following an investigation that alleged insurance fraud, credit card...

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...

When The FBI Shows Up At Your Door About Your Reporting, That's Intimidation 29 November 2021 Having the government show up at your door to ask some questions about your reporting can be extremely unnerving. Zack Whittaker, the top notch cybersecurity reporter for TechCrunch got to experience...

$2,000,000 and a bucket of tears gets a bad cop off the hook in Ladue, Missouri. After Meeting With Victim, Former Missouri Officer Is Cleared of Assault The charge was dropped after the former police officer and the woman she shot outside a supermarket in Ladue, Mo., agreed to meet with a...

Missouri Man Who Spent More Than 40 Years in Prison for Triple Murder He Didn’t Commit Is Now Free 24 November 2021 A Missouri man who has spent more than 40 years in prison is now a free man, after being convicted of three murders he didn’t commit. Kevin Strickland left the Western Missouri...

With federal oversight in short supply, state AGs step in to probe troubled police 23 November 2021 Police in Aurora, Colo., shot 20-year-old Jamaal Bonner in the back three times with a submachine gun during a sting operation, killing him. Four years later, the department formally apologized...

Armed man c 'Maserati Mike' identified as fired Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Jesse T. Kline 18 November 2021 The man who called himself "Maserati Mike" and showed up Wednesday with a long rifle outside the Kenosha County Courthouse is a fired Ferguson, Missouri, police officer. Jesse...

Kearney police officer submits guilty plea to felony charges of misconduct with a child 3 November 2021 Officer Alan Hale has submitted guilty pleas for two second-degree felonies. The Kearney police officer faced felony charges for inappropriate misconduct with a child. Hale submitted the...

Soon-to-be convicted cop Eric DeValkenaere blubbering on the witness stand Witnesses called in trial of Kansas City detective who shot, killed Cameron Lamb 9 November 2021 On Tuesday the prosecution rests in the trial of Kansas City Police Detective who is charged with involuntary...

California prison guard dies by suicide after reporting officers faked documents, planted drugs 7 October 2021 A California prison guard killed himself after reporting corruption and harassment to authorities and cooperating with attorneys suing the state, a newspaper reported Wednesday...

“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...

‘The norms have broken down’: Shock as journalists are arrested, injured by police while trying to cover the story 31 May 2020 Ali Velshi knew almost instantly what had happened when he felt a sharp pain in his leg Saturday night in Minneapolis: He’d been hit with a rubber bullet fired by...

Civilian Cops Don't Need Military Weapons 8 October 2021 I recently was driving behind a pickup truck that sported a bumper sticker with a U.S. Marine Corps logo and these words: "When it absolutely positively has to be destroyed overnight." That line got me thinking about policing—and the...

Federal police reform talks have thus far failed – but local efforts stand a better chance of success, including in California 28 September 2021 Bipartisan talks over police reform ended with no agreement on Sept. 22, 2021, with House Democrats and Republicans blaming each other for the lack...

Sayonara! Don't let the door hit you in the fannies on your way out! Entire Police Dept Abandons Their Jobs Permanently and Town Doesn’t Descend Into Chaos 26 September 2021 Earlier this month, without warning, the taxpayers of Kimberling City found out that the police department they have...