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An Accused War Criminal Trained Florida Cops in 'New Concepts of Shooting' A sign of the forever wars coming home, Eddie Gallagher trained officers from the Tallahassee Police Department. 12 August 2022 Should a military veteran who has been reliably accused of war crimes, and who admitted...

Seattle, Washington, police officers Jason 'Quick Draw' Anderson (left) & Steven 'Hot Shot' McNew (right) ‘You Shot My Mom’: Cops Justified for Killing Pregnant Mom in Front of Kids After She Called Them for Help 16 July 2022 On a Sunday afternoon in June of 2017, a pregnant mother’s 911...

LGBTQ Pride Organizers Weigh Multiple Threats, From Police Brutality to Vigilante Violence Between angry cops, hateful politicians, and plotting right-wing extremists, they have their hands full. 24 June 2022 Seattle’s Pride Parade, among the largest in the country, will return this weekend...

Derek Kammerzell Insignia of Nazi Obergruppenführer on Derek Kammerzell's office door Outrage as Nazi-loving Police Chief Gets $1.5 Million Bonus for Displaying Nazi Insignia 17 June 2022 There used to be a time in America when displaying Nazi symbols would cause a person to be dragged in...

*burp* Auburn police officer under investigation for DUI, vehicular homicide The officer, who was off-duty at the time, was arrested and taken to jail April 23. 26 April 2022 An Auburn police officer was arrested for investigation of vehicular homicide on the night of Saturday, April 23...

How AI-powered tech landed man in jail with scant evidence 5 March 2022 Michael Williams’ wife pleaded with him to remember their fishing trips with the grandchildren, how he used to braid her hair, anything to jar him back to his world outside the concrete walls of Cook County Jail. His...

Colorado Legislators Advance Bill To Ban Police from Lying to Minors During Interrogations Reason reported last year on how minors are particularly susceptible to being coerced into false confessions. 25 February 2022 Democratic lawmakers in Colorado are advancing a bill that would ban police...

WATCH: While Shooting Wounded Man on the Ground, Trigger Happy Cops Shoot One of Their Own 25 February 2022 Body camera footage was released this week showing a graphic shooting that left a suspected trailer thief in critical care and a National City Police detective with a bullet hole in his...

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...

On the job for only three years, killer deputy Jonathan Feller already has two notches on his belt. :( Deputy accidentally shoots, kills off-duty police officer 1 February 2022 A deputy with the Clark County Sheriff’s Office shot and killed an off-duty Vancouver police officer at the...

Stop Training Police Like They’re Joining the Military If policing is to change, the spotlight must turn toward police academies, where new recruits are first inculcated into the folkways of their profession. 10 June 2020 When I entered the Washington, D.C., police academy in 2016 as a...

It is an expected outcome to the ever worsening epidemic of police violence. In Political Science 101 fifty years ago, we would have called this a question of legitimacy. With their increasingly violent attacks on the citizens that they are supposed to serve, that part of our government is...

Seattle police faked Proud Boys threat during race protests, says watchdog Investigation finds police used an ‘improper ruse’ and exacerbated an already volatile situation, but consequences are unlikely 5 January 2022 Seattle police exchanged detailed fake radio transmissions about a...

This Redmond mom was fatally shot by police after calling 911 for help 23 April 2021 When Andrea Thomas Churna moved into her luxury apartment in Redmond, Washington, last summer, she was looking forward to a fresh start. She had recently moved back to Washington state from California, to...

Court Finally Strips Cops of Qualified Immunity for Laughing as They Killed Handcuffed Innocent Man 31 December 2021 As TFTP previously reported, on the night of Aug. 10, 2016, Tony Timpa called 911 asking police to help him because he had a history of mental illness and he was off his...

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...

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...

A Perfect Storm of Stupidity! If any one of the bozos pictured below had half a brain, this idiotic fiasco never would have happened. It all started with Clarkston's local "Karen", Jodi Lynn Brunelle (not sure which Karen, if either, is Jodi Lynn Brunelle) Clarkston, Washington, police...

3 officers still charged: Christopher Burbank, second-degree murder Matthew Collins, second-degree murder Timothy Rankine, first-degree manslaughter 2 officers exonerated (possible civil liability remains): Armando Farinas Masiyh Ford Dolled up in orange: Christopher Burbank (left)...

Cops who are "disrespected" are disrespected for good reasons. Why any police administrator in his right mind would try to recruit other departments' brutes and bully boys is beyond me. 3 stars or 4? Confused? Make up your mind! Sheriffs Making Much Ado 9 November 2021 This week...