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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...

Affidavit: USBP agent tried strangling her 10-year-old daughter 11 January 2022 A U.S. Border Patrol agent landed behind bars for causing injuries to her daughter, according to Laredo police. Brandy Marie Ochoa, 41, was served with arrest warrants on Jan. 7 charging her with two counts of...

Former Rio Grande City police detective sentenced to 14 years in prison 9 August 2019 A former Rio Grande City police detective who protected drug traffickers, sold law enforcement radios to smugglers and helped the Gulf Cartel hide murder weapons will spend 14 years in prison. U.S. District...

Affidavit: USBP agent Francisco Javier Romero admits to drinking beer prior to DWI arrest 13 January 2022 A U.S. Border Patrol agent recently arrested on a drunk driving allegation admitted to drinking beer prior to the arrest, according to an arrest affidavit. The case unfolded at about...

Texas sheriff under investigation for routinely seizing cash from undocumented immigrants Search warrants show that Real County Sheriff Nathan Johnson is under scrutiny by state investigators, accused of illegally confiscating cash and a pickup truck from immigrants stopped by his deputies. 10...

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."...

WATCH: Cop Driving Over 100MPH in Neighborhood, Jumps Sidewalk, Kills Innocent Man—Not Charged 5 January 2022 Body camera footage released this week shows what happens when over-confident cops get behind the wheel and drive like they are invincible. Their dangerous and irresponsible cowboy...

WATCH: Cops Hold Down Woman, Repeatedly Punch, Knee Her for Sleeping on Sidewalk 1 November 2021 On Sunday night, in the neighborhood of West Campus, police received a 911 call that a man had been shot. It would take Austin police officers over 50 minutes to respond to that call. The man was...

Innocent but beaten: before, after, after Just another day at the office for El Paso's bully-boy cops -- what's a broken nose or two when you're having so much fun beating innocent people? Woman who claims she was brutally beaten by a cop while being arrested for DWI was NOT drunk at the...

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...

'Excited delirium' cited as factor in many fatal police restraint cases. Some say it's bogus. 13 June 2020 One of the Minneapolis police officers involved in the Memorial Day killing of George Floyd voiced his concern about “excited delirium” while helping hold down the 46-year-old man until...

He Was a Board Member of the Oath Keepers. Now He’s Holding State-Approved Trainings for Law Enforcement in Texas. Richard Mack wants your sheriff to defy the government. 29 October 2021 On a glorious Saturday morning in October, about 75 people are gathered inside an airy warehouse on the...

Unsecured Data Leak Shows Predicitive Policing Is Just Tech-Washed, Old School Biased Policing 27 December 2021 Don't kid yourselves, techbros. Predictive policing is regular policing, only with confirmation bias built in. The only question for citizens is whether or not they want to pay tech...

Man Who Killed Officer In Drunk Driving Accident Was Arrested In May For DWI, But Released A Day Later 23 December 2021 Sansom Park Police said today that a man suspected of killing a Euless detective in a drunk driving accident last month had been arrested in May for DWI, but was released...

Subset of mug shots from KSAT Top (left to right): Danilo Molina, Toribio Gutierrez, Dezi Rios and Marshall Shepard. Bottom (left to right): Abigail Colbert, Erik Rodriguez, Maverick Moreland and Gerard Mamorno. Note: This was based on a 20 December story by KSAT, so there's an 83% chance...

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...

Augmenting the cops with armed soldiers: Texas National Guard Filmed Trespassing During Border Operations Soldiers patrolling border communities with assault rifles is the latest escalation in Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star. 17 December 2021 It was early November when Marianna...

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...

Ex-Police Captain Indicted for Holding Man at Gunpoint Under False Belief That ‘Hispanic Children’ Signed 750,000 Fake Ballots 15 December 2021 A former police captain with the Houston Police Department was indicted on Tuesday for allegedly holding an innocent AC repairman at gunpoint over a...

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...