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Cop Sues Own Dept. After She Was Shot By a Fellow Officer Who was Never Disciplined A cop shot his fellow officer in the back and the only one disciplined was the cop who got shot. 14 July 2022 Up until last year, Darryl Borden was facing charges consisting of two counts of attempted murder...

Ex-Correctional Officer in Florida Arrested for Allegedly Heading Large-Scale Drug Trafficking Ring 21 July 2022 Authorities in Florida this week announced the takedown of a large-scale drug trafficking ring allegedly headed by a former state correctional officer. Christina Michelle Guess...

Innocent Family’s Home Burned, 15yo Boy Dead After SWAT Set Their Home on Fire with Flash Bangs 11 July 2012 An innocent family is homeless and a 15-year-old boy is dead after a SWAT team engaged in a standoff to arrest a suspect for a parole violation. Police are now conducting damage...

SWAT Team Deployed to Cop’s House After He Threatened a Mass Shooting Against Fellow Officers 1 June 2022 Anyone who can apply logic and reason knows that banning guns in the United States will have the sole effect of disarming law abiding citizens while keeping guns in the hands of criminals...

Police Could’ve Used a No-Knock Raid Correctly, Instead, They Knocked, Then Shot & Killed a 2yo Hostage 5 April 2022 After the death of George Floyd in May of 2020, the nation engaged in fierce debates about how to curb the problem of excessive force in the land of the free. After massive...

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...

North Miami, Florida, police officer Jonathon Aledda Court Quietly Overturns Conviction for Cop Who Shot a Therapist for Helping Lost Autistic Man 22 February 2022 The police shooting of Charles Kinsey on July 18, 2016, outraged the nation, as video footage captured Kinsey lying on his back...

Now that's what I call backup! :D While Executing Search Warrant, Cop Mistakes Fellow Cop for Suspect, Dumps 14 Rounds, Shooting Him 15 February 2022 In November 2019, officers with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department along with agents from the FBI Safter Streets Task Force were...

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...

A Jacksonville police SWAT officer was fired after showing up drunk at a gun range. Now he's getting his job back. Officer Nicholas Gifford will return to work after being fired when he came to a gun range with a blood alcohol level four times the legal limit 3 February 2022 A SWAT officer...

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...

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...

Police Misbehavior Is a Crucial Threat to Liberty Cops in Los Angeles killed a young girl in a department store dressing room by accident while firing at a suspect armed with nothing more than a bike lock. 14 January 2022 Whenever I write about police abuse and use-of-force issues, I often...

DHS, ICE Begin Body Camera Pilot Program With Surprisingly Good Policies In Place 30 December 2021 Following protests over killings by law enforcement officers, the Department of Justice decided it might be a good idea to equip more police officers with body cameras. In May 2015, it announced...

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...

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...

Big Trouble in Little Rock A Reformist Black Police Chief Faces an Uprising of the Old Guard 18 December 2021 1 - Backlash: On the morning of May 28, 2020, a Black sergeant with the Little Rock, Arkansas, Police Department woke up, turned on the news, and saw the George Floyd video for the...

Vallejo police bend badges to mark fatal shootings 28 July 2020 They call it, “The Badge of Honor.” For a generation, a secretive clique within the Vallejo Police Department has commemorated fatal shootings with beers, backyard barbecues, and by bending the points of their badges each time...

For Vallejo officers who use force, a pattern of promotions and awards 28 July 2020 In May 2019, as the Vallejo Police Department was embroiled in controversy for excessive force allegations, including shooting a sleeping person 55 times, the department held an awards and promotion ceremony...

HPD SWAT officer mistakenly leaves loaded rifle in Fiesta parking lot in Katy-Cypress area 9 December 2021 The Houston Police Department said it is investigating after one of its SWAT team members left an AR-15 style rifle in a public parking lot. "HPD takes these types of inadvertent...