The NYPD is jerking around FOIL (Freedom of Information Law) requesters again. Usually, the NYPD just pretends it's the CIA (somewhat justified, considering ... (more)
State police are investigating after marshals for the central Louisiana city of Marksville shot and killed an autistic child and critically wounded his father following a vehicle pursuit on Tuesday.
Confirmed as the youngest person killed by police this year, the boy has been identified as 6-year-old Jeremy Mardis. He was reportedly sitting in the passenger seat... (more)
Recently appointed DEA Chief Chuck Rosenberg won support from marijuana advocates in August when he admitted, unlike his predecessor, that marijuana is not as harmful as heroin. This week, however, the head of the agency revealed his actual position on cannabis: He called medicinal marijuana a "joke" and insisted the plant is "bad," "dangerous," and has no medical benefits.
"What really bothers me is the notion that marijuana is also medicinal -- because it's not... (more)
Pagedale specifically budgets to receive a large percentage of its revenue from fines and fees. By targeting a certain amount of revenue from fines and fees from its residents, Pagedale turns policing on its head. Rather than react to conditions to ensure that the public is protected and wrongdoers punished, Pagedale sets a revenue goal and then uses its code ... (more)
A police officer in England, Arkansas has been charged after admitting he lied when he claimed he was shot in the chest during a traffic stop last month.
Sgt. David Houser had claimed that a Hispanic man pointed a .40 caliber semi-automatic handgun out the window of his vehicle during the stop on Oct. 24 off Highway 15.
Proving to be unstable, combative and petty, an FBI agent interjected himself in a family custodial dispute on behalf of his girlfriend and her estranged husband, who was two hours late in dropping off their baby.
But FBI Agent Gerald Rogero’s intrusive attempts at heroism led to him assaulting and threatening to shoot the 15-year-old son ... (more)
Adams County, ID — Jack Yantis, a 62-year-old rancher from Council, Idaho, received a call from the Adams County Sheriff's Office on November 1 informing him that one of his bulls had been struck by a car on the nearby interstate. Yantis arrived at the scene a few minutes later, armed with a rifle to put down the wounded animal, which had turned aggressiv... (more)
Grand juries: still just prosecutorial railroads, despite everything the word "jury" would imply. Seemingly the only time a grand jury fails to return an indictment is when the prosecutor doesn't want one. To ensure the jury po... (more)
A Cleveland, Ohio magistrate recently ordered a newborn baby to be confiscated from her family because her mother drank reportedly non-psychoactive marijuana tea to ease her labor pains. The decision to remove the child from her parents' home came despite the opinion of the county's child services agency that the baby should stay with her family.
New Haven, CT — In a ridiculous move, ostensibly designed to protect citizens from theft, the New Haven police department has begun stealing things from innocent individuals.
Yes, you read that correctly.
The New Haven police department announced its plans this week to start stealing things from unsuspecting residents who leave their doors unlocked. If you are missing your valuables, it may not have been taken by a private thief, it could have been stolen by a... (more)
Two short-tempered men run into each other in a bar in Enid, Oklahoma. The combustible mixture of alcohol and ego produces the predictable reaction -- a brief, stupid, and inconclusive fight in which neither side is seriously injured. When police officers arrive on the scene, onlookers expect that both parties to the altercation will be hauled away in handcuffs.
However, after one of them produces a police credential, he is allowed to handcuff the other and place him under arrest ... (more)
For many years, law enforcement agencies used (mostly outdated) wiretapping laws to justify arrests and prosecutions of citizens who recorded them during their public duties. For a long time, they succeeded, with Illinois seeing a... (more)
Chrystal McCadden is outraged after she said she was called to Brownell STEM Academy in Flint, Michigan on Otc. 12 to find her 7-year-old son handcuffed by an officer.
According to Flint police, the cop responded to a call for assistance with "a child who appeared intent on injuring himself or others [and] used handcuffs to restrain [him]."
It's a phenomenon known as "walking while black." To many who are not African American, it is assumed to be nothing more than paranoia or coincidence. But to African Americans, it is a phenomenon that is all to real, and one that is becoming increasingly documented by those who film the police.
One such incident was recorded by Deonte Lynn, an African American man who was simply walking home from work when he was stopped and then frisked by an Alabama police officer after the cop... (more)
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sgt. Eric Gonzalez was sentenced to eight years in prison by U.S. District Judge George H. King on Monday, for his role in a jail beating ring that had been targeting visitors of inmates.
Federal officials launched an investigation in 2010 after allegations surfaced that deputies had been brutalizing visitors to the Los Angeles county jail in a windowless, secluded room and then wrote false reports claiming the victims had instigated violence.
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46-year-old Alfred Young told deputy jailers and medical staff at the Canyon County, Idaho jail that something was wrong over and over again.
For three weeks, the man pleaded with workers who ignored his numerous requests for help until he was found unresponsive in a holding cell, a... (more)
"You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with 'til ya understand who's in ruttin' command here."
-- Jayne Cobb, demonstrating why he should never be left in charge of anything, from "The Train Job."
"We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us," purred 18th Century arch-reactionary Joseph de Mais... (more)
