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Little Miss Coplette detective Michelle McHenry went back to a bar to finish a fight with another woman and ended up getting the crap beat out of her -- so what's a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal coplette to do? Of course, she had the other woman busted for assaulting an officer. Pittsburg's...

Kansas and California Cops Used Civil Forfeiture to Stage Armored Car Heists, Stealing Money Earned by Licensed Marijuana Businesses The Institute for Justice argues that the seizures violated state law, federal law, and the U.S. Constitution. 18 January 2022 Because the continued federal...

Pennsylvania Says Legal Medical Marijuana Means Cops Can't Just Sniff Their Way Into Warrantless Searches 19 January 2022 The legalization of marijuana is changing the probable cause equation all over the nation. What used to be an easy bust and/or a great way to engage in warrantless...

Top-down mismanagement! After the crooked cops bust them, the crooked jailers take over. "... the AP revealed that more than 100 Bureau of Prisons workers have been arrested, convicted or sentenced for crimes since the start of 2019, including a warden charged with sexually abusing an inmate."...

Man free after 37 years due to ‘sex for lies’ false witness Willie Stokes was decades into a life sentence when he learned the witness who testified against him at a 1984 court hearing soon pleaded guilty to perjury over the testimony. 5 January 2022 A Philadelphia man was freed from prison...

After 4 Killings, ‘Officer of the Year’ Is Still on the Job A Pennsylvania state trooper was returned to duty following three investigations by his own agency. A fourth inquiry is underway. 30 December 2021 In November 2008, Pennsylvania Trooper Jay Splain was honored at a county law...

LAPD shootings of unstable people wielding sharp objects a deadly problem 13 June 2021 On a North Hollywood street last year, Los Angeles Police Officer Daniel Harty watched through his rifle scope as 50-year-old Rommel Mendoza walked “erratically” toward him and a line of other officers...

‘I Always Date Younger’: Former Federal Corrections Officer Is Going to Federal Prison for ‘Enticement of a Minor to Engage in Sexual Activity’ 15 December 2021 A Pennsylvania man and former federal corrections officer was sentenced to a decade in federal prison on Tuesday over his online...

Court Tells Cops Who Got A Man Wrongly Imprisoned For 25 Years That Of Course Framing People For Crimes Is A Rights Violation 13 December 2021 There's a constitutional right not to be framed by cops for a crime you didn't commit. This shouldn't even need to be argued in court once, much less...

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...

The report "Frustrating, Corrupt, Unfair: Civil Forfeiture in the Words of its Victims" is given in the responses that follow. Institute For Justice Survey Shows How Philadelphia's Forfeiture Program Preyed On Poor Minorities 8 November 2021 The Institute for Justice managed to kill off...

ATF Goes On Tour To Teach Journalists That Cops Are Usually Right When They Kill Someone 11 November 2021 The ATF (the accepted not-actually-an-acronym for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) is back on its periodic charm offensive. This time the charm seems a bit more...

Race takes center stage as jury questioning begins in hate-crime trial of former South Jersey police chief 10 November 2021 Should the use of racist slurs by a police officer be a crime? The question was among the thorny topics posed Tuesday to potential jurors in the federal hate-crime...

After Years of Complaints, the D.C. Jail Has Been Deemed Too Wretched for Some Inmates 3 November 2021 The U.S. Marshals Service announced Tuesday that it was transferring roughly 400 inmates out of the D.C. Jail due to unacceptable living conditions that reportedly included water and food...

Woman says she was strip-searched during routine traffic stop in Pennsylvania lawsuit 5 November 2021 A woman is suing four Pennsylvania State Police officers over a “degrading road-side strip search” after being pulled over for allegedly driving five mph over the posted speed limit...

In Only 6 Years, 30,000 Philly Residents Were Robbed by Cops. Most of Them Innocent, Poor, Black "We stole this from innocent people." 30 October 2021 For six straight years, law enforcement in Philadelphia acted as a corrupt ring of thieving thugs, shaking down more than 30,000 residents...

Rapper Fetty Wap, NJ corrections officer among 6 arrested in cross-country drug ring: officials 29 October 2021 The rapper Fetty Wap was charged on Friday with participating in a conspiracy to smuggle large amounts of heroin, fentanyl and other drugs into the New York City region. The...

Two Pennsylvania police officers were fired for submitting fake COVID-19 vaccination cards to their department 31 October 2021 Two Pennsylvania police officers were fired after they submitted fake COVID-19 vaccine cards to their department. Officers Heather Schaeffer and Benjamin Lapp of the...

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...

Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania, killer cops Brian Devaney (left), Sean Dolan (middle), Devon Smith (right) 8yo Little Girl Killed, Family Shot as Cops Fire 25 Rounds Into Innocent Crowd at Football Game 27 October 2021 When 8-year-old Fanta Bility and her family attended a high school football...