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*burp* Fall River Police Officer Arrested in Somerset on OUI Charges 14 July 2022 It's the second arrest this week and the third this year for Andrew Crook, a Fall River police lieutenant who is now facing drunk driving and open container charges following an incident Wednesday afternoon...

*burp* Police Chief: Superior Officer Arrested In Fatal Crash 15 July 2022 According to the Superior Police Department, a fatal crash occurred involving one of it’s officers who was allegedly intoxicated. In a press release, Police Chief Nicholas Alexander said that around 1:15 Friday...

D.C. Spent $2.5 Million in Pandemic Relief Funds on Parking Cops 24 March 2022 Pandemic funds used to hire parking cops, pay for prisons, build hotels. At a time when many residents were struggling due to job losses and loss of business, the District of Columbia ramped up efforts to wring...

School Surveillance Video Released Showing Cop Throw 12yo Girl Down, Kneel on Her Neck March 21 2022 In August of 2020, just a few months after the country descended into mass protest over the death of George Floyd, video footage showed an officer with the Kenosha police department shoot...

Letter From High-Ranking FBI Lawyer Tells Prosecutors How To Avoid Court Scrutiny Of Firearms Analysis Junk Science 18 February 2022 Law enforcement — including the FBI — like to claim they’re heavily invested in science. The use of forensic “science” has been with us for years, but nowhere...

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...

Police Chief Gets No Jail, Allowed to Retire, Gets $72k in Benefits After Guilty Plea in Sex Assault Case 31 January 2022 In January of last year, Marshfield Police Chief Rick Gramza was arrested and charged with three counts of misconduct in office, disorderly conduct, and fourth-degree...

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...

"Our findings reaffirm that law enforcement not only failed to protect protestors, but actively put them in harm’s way by enabling and encouraging predominantly white, right-wing armed civilians and militia groups that night. These actions escalated tensions, heightening rather than diffusing a...

Iowa police body camera video is sometimes revealing — if the public is allowed to see it 1 February 2021 When an Iowa City police officer in 1996 accidentally shot and killed Eric Shaw, an artist working late in his father’s office, Troy Kelsay wasn’t the one who fired the gun but knew...

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...

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...

Former Sheriff’s Deputy Sexually Abused Male Relatives, Told 8-Year-Old Boy He ‘Might’ Grow Up to ‘Be A Porn Star’ Some Day: Authorities 15 December 2021 A former Wisconsin sheriff’s deputy has been arrested and charged with a series of crimes in connection with alleged child sex assaults —...

Kyle Rittenhouse Didn’t Act Alone: Law Enforcement Must Be Held Accountable The massive show of force from 40 law enforcement agencies in Kenosha didn’t make anyone safer. 19 November 2021 For two weeks, we’ve heard trial testimony and seen evidence of the events that occurred on August 25...

After Rittenhouse Verdict, Girl Facing Life for Killing Her Child Sex Trafficker in Self Defense Should Also Be Freed 4 December 2021 Last month, the internet and streets erupted in both anger and joy after a jury of his peers found Kyle Rittenhouse ‘not guilty’ on all charges in Kenosha...

With federal oversight in short supply, state AGs step in to probe troubled police 23 November 2021 Police in Aurora, Colo., shot 20-year-old Jamaal Bonner in the back three times with a submachine gun during a sting operation, killing him. Four years later, the department formally apologized...

Man Faces 30-Year Sentence in the Self-Defense Case Everyone Ignored Last Week 22 November 2021 Opposition to the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict—which saw a jury accept the teen's self-defense claim after he shot two men and wounded another during a night of civil unrest—primarily splintered along...

Armed man c 'Maserati Mike' identified as fired Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Jesse T. Kline 18 November 2021 The man who called himself "Maserati Mike" and showed up Wednesday with a long rifle outside the Kenosha County Courthouse is a fired Ferguson, Missouri, police officer. Jesse...

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...

Sheriff Joseph Konrath (left) and Deputy Cameron Klump (right) Wisconsin high schooler wins lawsuit against sheriff over COVID-19 social media post 24 September 2021 A Wisconsin high schooler on Friday won her lawsuit against a sheriff's deputy who allegedly threatened her with arrest if...