Jay Cicinelli was one of two former Fullerton, California cops who was acquitted in the brutal 2011 beating death of Kelly Thomas. This much well known.
What many don’t realize is this killer cop has been receiving $40,000 in an annual pension, paid out in tax-payer dollars from the City of Los Angeles.
Former Officer Cicinelli is receiving this pension while sitting at home, after walking free – not facing any prison time for h... (more)
Kalamazoo County, Michigan – This week, a woman was jailed for failing to pay for a $35 licence for her dog on time. To make matters even worse, she was actually arrested after she had already paid to renew the licence!
After getting a number of threatening letters and phone calls from the city, Becky Rehr paid to renew the licence for her dog, and then went to the police station to show them proof that the fee had been paid. ... (more)
There is nothing unusual about a motorist filing a million-dollar lawsuit against a police officer, especially as advances in video recording technology have made it easier to document abuse. Virginia State Trooper Melanie H. McKenney decided to turn the tables last month by filing a lawsuit against Nathan Cox, a driver who posted a video on the Internet calling her "crazy." Trooper McKenney is demanding $1,350,000 in compensation from Cox, who runs the Virginia CopBlock website.
Palmer Park, MD — While the U.S. debates whether or not Bill Cosby offered Quaaludes to women, cops across the country are beating, raping and molesting and Americans are silent.
In just the last 2 weeks, a cop has been arrested for beating his wife, while lighting her head on fire. Another cop escaped jail time after admitting to raping a toddler. An Amarillo cop was fired ... (more)
We've recently discussed at length the subpoena and gag order issued by the Assistant US Attorney over some tasteless, but innocuous, comments made by Reason readers. Anyone who's spent any time in comment sections would have seen these comments as nothing more than the internet being the internet -- a place where hyperbole and stupidity very often outweighs thought and nuance. The comments are being treated as serious t... (more)
The violent aggression police officers consistently exhibit on the job often finds its way into their personal lives.
In one of the latest cases, Los Angeles County Sheriffs Deputy Alejandro Flores, 33, was arrested Monday for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend, lighting her head on fire and threatening her with an off-duty weapon – all in front of her 2-year-old child in their Buena Park ... (more)
According to Dallas SWAT officer Terigi Rossi, who was featured on the A&E TV show Dallas SWAT but later demoted after being found sleeping on the job, threatening to break a child's "f*cking neck" while telling him to "shut the f*ck up" is not a violent death threat, but a "verbal judo technique" that he uses to "calm suspects down."
Incidentally, calling a boy a "piece of f*cking sh*t," "just like your mother" and threatening to have him put in a foster home is also a par... (more)
Kochville Township, MI — DaJuawn Wallace was on a late night drug store run to get medicine for his sick girlfriend when he was targeted for a traffic stop.
Saginaw Valley State University Police Officer Leon Wilson had seen a car driving on the sidewalk on the SVSU campus earlier that night. Despite not knowing the make nor the model of the car, Wilson decided to pull over Wallace, citing that he “fit the description.”
A Los Angeles man walking down the boardwalk in Venice Beach while video recording ended up in handcuffs after telling a cop “fuck you,” one day after our nation celebrated Independence Day.
Some people may say Ricky Munday brought it upon himself by yelling out obscenities while walking down the boardwalk, but the video shows he onl... (more)
ROSWELL, N.M. - A former Roswell Police Officer is now facing criminal charges after falsely accusing a Sonic employee of spitting in his drink. Shortly after the false accusation was made, Roswell police officers shut the restaurant down for two hours to execute the search warrant only to find that Officer Chris Ray Moreno had made the entire thing up.
Investigators checked the security cameras in the restaurant and found no evidence of wro... (more)
In this video just posted to YouTube by Benn Jordan, he tells the story of "Andy's Candyland," a youth recreational center which was operating without proper permitting in Bridgeport, Chicago in 2012.
The center was shut down and their operating funds were stolen by Chicago police officers after Andy, the center's owner, made the "controversia... (more)
A British Columbia, Canada family were harassed last Sunday by Surrey police while attempting to have a weekend game of soccer in a public park.
Footage recorded from the scene shows Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers telling Satnam Singh Pawer and his family that they need a permit to play on public property despite other families in the vicinity doing the same thing.
“Listen to me, I'm in charge here today, okay,” one officer goads after clapping ... (more)
A Philadelphia cop was filmed telling a woman there is "no excuse" for parking the wrong way on a street with confusing signage, but then goes on to order the woman to stop filming him, claiming it's "against the law" to film him without his permission.
Of course, it's entirely within the law to film police, and you do not need their permissio... (more)
Port Orange, FL — On December 21, Port Orange Police Officer Silvio Portillo was driving his patrol car at 15 mph above the posted speed limit when he struck and killed a motorcyclist.
Father of two and Navy Veteran, Andrew McIlvain, 39, was riding his motorcycle as Officer Portillo was looking down at his laptop on the way to a “non-priority” noise complaint. When Portillo looked up, it was too late, he was driving over this unsuspecting man.
The TSA runs a fairly entertaining Instagram account, if you're the sort of person who is impressed by pictures of weapons seized from stupid passengers. That would be the extent of its social media prowess. Its blog is pretty much a 50/50 mix of Yet Another Thing You Can't Take Onboard and Blogger Bob defending the TSA's lat... (more)
US Marine Corps combat veteran Kristoffer Lewandowski, who served in three tours of duty overseas including tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, reportedly faces up to life in prison for pot charges connected to a June 2014 raid on his Geronimo, OK home that occurred after his wife and neighbors called police to get him help for a post-traumatic stress disorder flare-up. However, rather than providing mental health resources, police responding on the scene searched Lewandowski’s home for contrab... (more)
According to information released Friday, there will be no charges brought against the cops in the Longview Police Department that shot and killed a 17 year old girl in Ja... (more)
A lying narc goes to jail, a bribe-taking probation officer gets indicted, a deputy's pill habit gets the best of him, and a woman cop's heroin dealing gets her in trouble. Let's get to it:
