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Texas' Costly 'Operation Lone Star' Leaves Alleged Illegal Immigrants Trapped in Jail with No Due Process 8 November 2021 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's border-control crusade is overwhelming court systems, leaving detainees stuck in jails for weeks or even months without due process, and generally...

‘Trooper of the Year’ Gets 17.5 Years for Producing Child Porn, Distributing It to His Own Network 8 November 2021 In 2018, Louisiana State Police Trooper of 18 years, Jason Boyet received one of the department’s highest honors—Trooper of the Year. Fast forward two years, and this hero cop...

State trooper arrested for alleged drug trafficking 4 November 2021 A trooper with the Texas Department of Public Safety stationed in the Valley is charged with drug trafficking. According to a criminal complaint obtained by Channel 5 News, Trooper Pablo Talavera Jr. was arrested last week...

Cops Arrested Her for Exercising Her First Amendment Rights. They Got Qualified Immunity—but the Appeals Court Wasn't Having It 3 November 2021 Whether you can exercise your First Amendment rights freely depends, in some cases, on where you live and what judges happen to hear your plea...

Ex-San Antonio police officer hospitalized after shootout with Tennessee deputies Lee Rakun was fired 6 times by SAPD and reinstated 5 times before retiring last year 12 August 2012 Ex San Antonio, Texas, Cop Lee Rakun A former San Antonio police officer who retired after a long history...

Top FBI Official in Charge of Crimes Against Children, Arrested for Sex Crimes Against Children 4 September 2021 Before he was arrested, FBI Supervisory Special Agent David Harris, 51, was tasked with investigating crimes against children, including child sexual abuse material, otherwise...

Man Killed by Police, His Home Burned After SWAT Team Shows Up Over Tall Grass 29 October 2021 Because the state claims the ability to tell you what you can and cannot do with your own property, often times, we see utterly ridiculous government overreach for simple issues like tall grass. In...

Just step out of the way, stupid! Arlington police fatally shoot suspected drunken driver who allegedly drove toward officer 20 October 2021 An Arlington police officer shot and killed a suspected drunken driver after that man tried to run down the officer, according to police. The...

Cop Walks Into a Bar And…Arrests You. For Having a Drink. 25 February 2010 LATE ON A BALMY Saturday night last June, six Fort Worth cops and two officers from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission went looking for trouble. They had just raided two Hispanic bars in an industrial stretch of...

Ex-Bryan police officer accused of driving drunk during funeral escort 21 October 2021 A former Bryan police officer was arrested after the department said she was drunk driving while working a funeral procession. Kristen Nichole Johnson. 36, was arrested Wednesday on a warrant for Driving...

Man Facing 30 Years for Shooting Down Police Drone — ‘Harassing Him’ on His Property 15 October 2021 Wendell Doyle Goney, 51, a “Florida man,” is facing 30 years behind bars after he was charged this week for destruction of an aircraft. That “aircraft” was a drone and it belonged to the Lake...

Mom Horrified After Finding Police Drone Watching Her Children — In Their Backyard 4 April 2017 For decades, in dystopian fictions, readers and watchers alike have become very familiar with the idea of state-run drones spying on the entrapped population. Luckily, however, the scenes of drones...

Louisiana State Trooper arrested on drunk driving charges in fatal Texas crash, officials say 13 October 2021 A Louisiana State Police trooper was arrested Wednesday for his involvement in a fatal drunk-driving crash in Texas that took the life of a pedestrian, officials say. The Texas...

Top Cop Who Presided Over Deadly Corruption in Houston Loses His New Job in Miami 6 Months After He Was Hired Art Acevedo provoked many complaints, but they paled in comparison to his prior record of negligence and obliviousness 12 October 2021 Art Acevedo, who presided over deadly corruption...

School Resource Officer Kevin Brunner Mom Sues Cops Who Arrested Her for Leaving 14-Year-Old Daughter Home Alone 11 October 2021 A federal judge has ruled that two cops who work at a public school in Midland, Texas, can be sued for seizing a 14-year-old from her family's apartment because...

Wikipedia: Pecan Park raid On January 28, 2019, in the Pecan Park area in the East End district of Houston, Houston Police Department (HPD) officers initiated a no-knock raid on a house, killing the two homeowners, a husband and wife: Dennis Wayne Tuttle and Rhogena Ann Nicholas. They were...

Former Cop Sentenced for Using Hidden Camera to Record 14-Year-Old Girl in ‘Various States of Undress’ 8 October 2021 A former Primera, Texas police officer has been sentenced to serve ten years behind bars after he admitted installing hidden cameras to record images of a minor female...

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...

Dozens of states have tried to end qualified immunity. Police officers and unions helped beat nearly every bill. 7 October 2021 In the months after George Floyd’s murder, state legislators across the country tried to undo a legal doctrine that makes it virtually impossible to sue police...

Smith County Pct. 2 Constable arrested for official oppression, prostitution just days after re-election 6 November 2020 The Smith County Pct. 2 Constable was arrested today by the Texas Rangers. Black was released on a $1000 bond for each of his charges. Smith County Precinct 2 Constable...