New Jersey police officer Michael Roadside, 51, was caught on video lying his ass off to another cop after he crashed his patrol car into an innocent woman.
After smashing into the woman while she was stopped at a stop sign, Officer Roadside allegedly approached her car trying to calm her down while he stunk of booze and was covered in vomit with his stomach hanging ou... (more)
Spring Lake, NC -- John David Livingston, 33, was shot and killed in the early morning hours of Sunday as police were conducting an assault investigation. Police were not looking for Livingston, and the entire situation could have been avoided had they come back with a warrant like Livingston requested.
On Tuesday, the Harnett County Sheriff's Office released the name of the deputy involved the killing of Livingston. Harnett County Sheriff's Deputy Nicholas Kehagias... (more)
The TSA is probably one of the most inept and ridiculous government agencies on the face of the planet – and has been disgraced time and time again by its almost-total failure in covert security audits.
One of the most glaring of note was an undercover inspector general investigation conducted last year, which found that body-scan... (more)
A now-former assistant Tallahassee police chief was convicted on multiple criminal charges in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama on Tuesday.
41-year-old Chris Miles took a plea deal and admitted to using cruel and unusual punishment on a suspect by beating and coercing a confession from him, and to stealing 16 pounds of marijuana from a police evidence locker.
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Tuscaloosa, AL -- On Wednesday, the Tuscaloosa police department released body cam footage of a violent arrest that made national headlines last week.
Multiple videos of the same violent arrest of three University of Alabama students quickly went viral when it happened, but it took until this week for the Tuscaloosa cops to release their body cam fo... (more)
Virginia police can stop and search any car with an air freshener hanging from the rear view mirror under a state Court of Appeals ruling handed down yesterday. A three-judge panel decided that it makes no difference whether Virginia's statute banning objects hanging from the mirror is constitutional. The court only last year felt otherwise, deciding in Mason v. Virginia that a three inch by five inch parking pass hanging from the rearview mirror was not an "obstruction" under this law (view rul... (more)
Between 1989 and 2010, U.S. attorneys seized an estimated $12.6 billion in asset forfeiture cases. The growth rate during that time averaged +19.4% annually. In 2010 alone, the value of assets seized grew by +52.8% from 2009 and was six times greater than the total for 1989. Then by 2014, that number had ballooned to roughly $4.5 billion for the year, making this 35% of t... (more)
CNN has one of those useless filler stories concerning the Paris attacks where it notes that the FBI will be ramping up wiretapping of suspected ISIS "sympathizers" in the wake of the attacks. That's sort of a dog bites man story if you think about it. What else are they going to do? However, as Adam Johnson notes, the article has a bizarre statement by an "anonymous" law enforcement off... (more)
It was revealed Sunday that almost $10,000 has disappeared from a Bridgeport Police Department evidence safe in Connecticut.
The Connecticut Post reports that $9,535 was discovered missing on Oct. 14 after prosecutors could not produce it as evidence in a 2011 case involving Abimael Ramos, who is accused of murdering his girlfriend.
Additionally, police say that another $30,000 may be unaccounted for.
"I, officers Carl and Tesla and Inspector John Tor... (more)
Harnett County, North Carolina sheriff's deputies kicked a man's door down at 3:30am this past Sunday and killed him after he told them they couldn't search his home "without a search warrant."
After John Livingston, 33, shut his door in the deputies' faces with his demand for a warrant, his roommate says police "kicked in the door, got on top of him, started slinging him around [and] beat him." ... (more)
Los Angeles, CA - This week, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck announced the initiation of a new award intended to encourage police officers to find more peaceful resolutions to conflicts. The honorary medal was widely praised, but one group took severe, predictable offense to the gesture. A local police union, the Los Angeles Police Protective... (more)
Video has emerged showing two California deputies with the Alameda County sheriff's department brutally beating a suspect that was fleeing on foot with batons.
The footage, which was released by the San Francisco Public Defender's office on Friday, shows the officers chasing the man – identified as Stanislav Petrov – near the corner of Clinton Park and Stevenson Street at about 2:05 a.m. on ... (more)
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has released a map of states that are known to use military grade spying technology known as "stingray". They have pinpointed 50 agencies across 21 states that use the intrusive illegal devise.
According to the ACLU "Stingrays, also known as "cell site simulators" or "IMSI catchers," are invasive cell phone surveillance devices that mimic cell phone towers... (more)
The first rule of bureaucratic crisis management is: "Find someone else to blame." This is true even in agencies as small as the Adams County Sheriff's Office.
Sheriff Ryan Zollman would have an insuperable conflict of interest were he to conduct the official inquiry into the November 1st killing of Jack Yantis. He could have avoided that conflict by firing the deputies, charging them as private citizens, and then turning the evidence over to a special prosecutor.
Manassas, VA – This week, the Manassas City Police Department proudly announced on their Facebook page that they would be setting up checkpoints to look for people who are driving with no license, seatbelt or with outdated inspection stickers. This type of checkpoint is a new low in police overreach, and the program seems to have very little public support from the community.
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With almost 10 million likes on Facebook and 14 million followers on Instagram, Dan Blizerian likes to make waves on social media posting pics of scantily-clad women and big guns.
In September, Blizerian returned to his West Hollywood mansion and discovered nine of his firearms were missing – eight pistols and one rifle. He thought they had been taken by burgl... (more)
Las Vegas, NV — An innocent couple was picking up their daughter Wednesday night when the father was accused of "fitting the description," and then he and his wife assaulted.
The subsequent video taken by the assaulted father highlights the problem of police escalation and incompetence.
As the video begins, the officer has his pistol drawn, which was the reason that compelled the man to begin filming. Since it was cold outside, the man filming had his oth... (more)
It was announced earlier today that the Sgt. Garry Wilson, of the Riviera Beach Police Department, has been charged with battery and criminal mischief, resulting from a confrontation he had with Isiah James over whether he should be using a handicapped parking space. (See video embedded below.)
In the incident, which James recorded on his cell phone, Wilson can be seen insistin... (more)
An Oklahoma officer with the the Yukon Police Department has been suspended with pay pending an investigation into claims that he brutalized a woman when he was off duty.
The report comes as no surprise. Often the violent and aggressive behavior typified by many officers on the job finds its way into their personal lives.
Predictably, officials said Thursday that 29-year-old Zachary Dean Bradford has not yet been charged with a crime despite multiple witness cla... (more)
After a wrongful death lawsuit was filed by the family of Linwood Lambert Jr., dash cam video and video from a hospital security camera has been released of his May 4, 2013 encounter with South Boston, Virginia police. That video shows him being tazed over 20 times by Cpl. Tiffany Bratton, Officer Clifton Mann, and Officer Travis Clay while handcuffed. The tas... (more)
