LA Jail With History Of Abuse Fires 10 More Employees Amid Neglect Accusations
LOS ANGELES — Ten jail employees accused of inmate neglect had their employment at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department terminated,...
Month: July 2015
New Report States Things in Baltimore Are Worse Than Anyone Knows
Baltimore, the city that just saw its police chief fired and recently six police officers charged in the death of...
Watch Bogota Cops Beat And Taze The Crap Out of Each Other
Bogota’s already criticized police department got embarrassed further on Wednesday when a video leaked of police recruits brutally fighting and apparently tasering each other....
UPDATE: New York Governor To Name Special Prosecutor For Killings By Police
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (h/t Brendan McDermid) UPDATE @ 7/13/2015 4:42 AM: State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the special...
Minneapolis Cop Watchers Think Body Cameras Are Overrated
As Minneapolis marches toward outfitting its cops with body cameras, the city is hosting a series of listening sessions so...
Maine Passes Bill Abolishing Permit Requirement for Concealed Carry
On July 8, Maine Governor Paul LaPage (R) signed Legislative Document 652 into law, thereby abolishing the requirement for a concealed...
Judge Sends 3 Young Children to Jail For Refusing to Visit Their Father
A judge who unsuccessfully tried to arrange child visitation for a father, decided that the best way to deal with...
Texas Cop Sued, Charged with 1st Degree Murder of Unarmed Man
Former Bexar County Sheriff’s Deputy Anthony Thomas SAN ANTONIO — A sheriff’s deputy is on trial facing first-degree murder charges,...
San Diego Defense Attorney Explains 10 Ways Cops Are Allowed to Lie
An informative essay titled 10 Ways the Police Can Lie to You appeared on the website of San Diego criminal...
Problem With Cops Shooting Mentally Ill May Be Bigger Than Lack Of Training
A report by the Washington Post shows close to a quarter of the 462 people shot by police this year so far showed...
“I’m In Charge Here,” Cops Shut Down Family Soccer Game
SURREY, B.C. — A family playing soccer was interrupted and forced from the field by police for allegedly not having...
Activists conduct operations across New Hampshire
Last weekend and early this week, the Rights Brigade conducted a series of activism operations unprecedented in scope, number, and...
Police Intervention Can Cause Protests to Turn Violent
You often hear about protests “turning violent.” It happened during the Montreal student protests in 2012, it happened at the...
NYC Residents to Pay $330,000 Settlement After Cop Sprays Protesters Without Cause
A lawsuit filed by six protesters affiliated with Occupy Wall Street is set to force residents of New York City...
Hacking Team Scrambling to Limit Damage Brought on by Explosive Data Leak
Who hacked Hacking Team, the Milan-based company selling intrusion and surveillance software to governments, law enforcement agencies and (as it...
Failure to Renew Dog License Lands Michigan Mom in Jail
Becky Wehr with her dog Dexter KALAMAZOO, MI — On her way to a Shipshewana shopping trip on June 23,...
South Carolina Man Who Defended Home from DEA No-Knock Raid Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison
Joel Robinson COLUMBIA, S.C. — A man who shot and injured a Drug Enforcement Administration agent during an early-morning no-knock...
NYPD, City Lawyers Accused of Destroying Evidence Showing Cops Issued Bogus Summonses to Meet Quota
The NYPD and city lawyers are engaging in a “stunning pattern” of evidence destruction in a high-stakes class-action case alleging...
Why Police Don’t Pull Guns in Many Countries
The officer, alert but cautious, pounds on the suspect’s door. “Polizei!” he says forcefully, in his native German. A man thrusts...
TSA Tweets Photo of Airline Passenger’s $75K Cash in Suitcase, DEA Confiscates
Most carry-on luggage is free, but one man’s may have cost him $75,000. That’s the astounding amount of cash that...
