As Chicago Pays Victims of Past Torture, Police Face New Allegations of Abuse at Homan Square
More victims have come forward to detail recent abuse inside Homan Square, a secret compound used by Chicago police for...
Month: May 2015
Six Months Later, Investigators Have Not Yet Questioned Cop Who Killed Tamir Rice
It’s been nearly six months since a Cleveland police officer shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice as he played in...
Seven St. Louis Corrections Officers Fired For Beating Inmate
Seven St. Louis corrections officers were fired following a more than year-long investigation probing their beating of a former inmate....
Police Killings Numbers Are Scarce or Inaccurate
Each year police kill a certain number of civilians. And every year the FBI puts out the Supplemental Homicide Report that’s...
NC Store Owner Targeted in IRS Civil Forfeiture Case is Getting Money Back
Lyndon McLellan is getting his money back. McLellan, a North Carolina convenience store owner, woke up one day to find...
City’s NYPD Watchdog Wants Eric Garner Grand Jury Evidence
The city’s NYPD watchdog wants to review the testimony and evidence from a grand jury investigation into the death of...
Sheriff Glad Suspect Shot by Deputies Was Not Black
Last Sunday (May 10), police in Kentucky shot John Kennedy Fenwick after a car chase that ended in a deputy...
Over 1,100 Civilians Were Killed By Police In 2014
In this Aug. 20, 2014 file photo police arrest a man as they disperse a protest against the shooting of...
Leaked Dashcam Video Shows Cops Lied About Shooting, DA Left Evidence Out
In the predawn hours of January 24, 2013, a police officer in Fayetteville, North Carolina, shot and killed a 22-year-old resident...
It’s Time to Talk About the Black Police Officers Who Killed Freddie Gray
Caesar Goodson. Alicia White. William Porter. These are three of the Baltimore City police officers facing criminal charges in the...
How Police Abuse is a Serious Threat to The Rule of Law
Far too often, police officers in many European countries resort to excessive use of force against protesters, mistreat persons in...
How an Epidemic of Police Abuse is Actually Going Unpunished
A woman faces a line of Baltimore police officers in riot gear during protests following the funeral of Freddie Gray...
Google’s Homemade Self-Driving Cars to Hit Roads This Summer
Here’s something that irks Chris Urmson: Sometimes people will get in self-driving cars, the spectacularly complex piece of technology he...
FBI’s Warning of White Supremacists Infiltrating Law Enforcement Nearly Forgotten
Because of intensifying civil strife over the recent killings of unarmed black men and boys, many Americans are wondering, “What’s...
Baltimore Cops Handling of Injured Suspects is Brutal
Prosecutors say that while Freddie Gray was being transported by police he repeatedly asked for medical help but the officers...
Reckoning for the Fed
If you queried American citizens as to whether they would support a monetary experiment conducted by the Federal Reserve to...
Illinois Police Get Approval for Drone Use
If it looks like a drone and smells like a drone, it’s a drone. The Illinois State Police was recently...
Illinois Cop Maces Handcuffed Jailed Teenagers
State authorities said they are investigating after a video surfaced showing an Alton police officer macing two teens in handcuffs...
FBI Reports Surge in Police Deaths, Ignore Rise in Police Killings of Civilians
Monday, the FBI reported that the number of U.S. police officers killed while working in 2014 had nearly doubled, to...
Video: Deputies Fired at Homeowner Almost Instantly, Did Not Give Him Chance to Drop Gun
Bryant Heyward had about two seconds to drop the 40-caliber handgun in his hands before a Charleston County Sheriff’s deputy...
