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A SWAT Team Wrongfully Raided Her Home. Now Cops Say Footage From the Raid Is Private Since No One Was Killed. Plus: A wave of educational gag orders, marijuana banking measure moves forward, and more... 3 February 2022 Judge says footage shouldn't be made public. In May 2020, a SWAT team...

19 days later they still haven't released the name of the careless cop who killed his son. Dad, a police officer, accidentally shoots teen son in head, North Carolina cops say 7 January 2022 Update: More than a week after the shooting, deputies told multiple news outlets that the teen...

Man assaulted, arrested for taking video of sheriff’s deputies WBTV Investigates: Lincoln County deputies tased man who called for medical help 13 January 2022 A man was assaulted and arrested while taking video of an incident involving Lincoln County sheriff’s deputies and other first...

Police: Off-duty deputy shot, killed Fayetteville man on Bingham Drive; video appears to show aftermath 9 January 2022 The person who killed a Fayetteville man police say "jumped" on a moving vehicle Saturday has been identified by law enforcement as an off-duty deputy with the Cumberland...

State trooper accidentally hit and killed his brother when responding to his call for backup 5 January 2022 James Lovelace heard the crash Monday night just outside his home in rural North Carolina, saw the State Highway Patrol cruisers and feared something bad had happened to his good...

"... 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...

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...

Statewide database on police use of force in NC won’t be public 28 November 2021 Incidents in which police officers kill or injure someone in North Carolina are going to be recorded statewide for the first time in a database. But the information will not be made available to the public. WRAL...

Watch Nevada Highway Patrol Officers Seize a Veteran's Life Savings Through Asset Forfeiture The officers admit there's nothing illegal about carrying large amounts of cash, then take almost $90,000 from him anyway. 1 December 2021 "I just want to tell you Officer Brown, you're taking money...

$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...

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...

‘Traumatizing’: Transgender woman says Meck County deputy attacked, sexually assaulted her 12 November 2021 A woman who is transgender was arrested and put in jail, only to then be attacked. She said the person who attacked her and sexually assaulted her was a Mecklenburg County deputy. That...

Dual arrests of Colorado sheriff leave 1,800-square-mile county with two deputies — and the coroner filling in as top cop 5 November The coroner is now the top law enforcement official in Cheyenne County thanks to a 144-year-old Colorado law that elevated him to the position after the sitting...

The Demand for Money Behind Many Police Traffic Stops Busted taillights, missing plates, tinted windows: Across the U.S., ticket revenue funds towns — and the police responsible for finding violations. 31 October 2021 Harold Brown’s contribution to the local treasury began as so many others...

Raleigh Detective Fired After Being Accused of Framing Black Men With Fake Heroin 3 November 2021 There’s always been stories about officers planting things on Black citizens to create reasons for arrests. Well, it seems that former Raleigh Detective Omar Abdullah has made those fears a bit...

ICE review of immigrant's suicide finds falsified documents,neglect, and improper confinement An internal review of Efraín Romero de la Rosa’s death in ICE custody found almost two dozen policy violations during his stint in detention. 23 October 2021 MEDICAL AND SECURITY staff at a U.S...

In a New Survey, Victims of Philadelphia's Forfeiture Racket Highlight the Hazards of Giving Cops a License To Steal 20 October 2021 After "they came in," Robert recalled, "they made me go down to the basement," "put a gun to the back of my head," and "said 'open the safe.'" When Robert did...

New Research Says Police in Schools Don't Reduce Shootings but They Do Increase Expulsions and Arrests 20 October 2021 New research finds that police deployed in schools, commonly called school resource officers (SROs), do not reduce school shootings, but do increase suspensions, expulsions...

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...

Wilson police officer facing DWI charges, according to officials 21 August 2021 A Wilson police officer arrested in Wake County is charged with driving while impaired. According to the Wilson Police Department, officer Marisela Cabello was arrested by the North Carolina State Highway Patrol...