Lawyers for a New York man arrested Monday on felony drug charges say police are retaliating against their client for filing a $30 million lawsuit against Nassau County and six police officers back in August that claimed he was unnecessarily shot and beaten during a Bayville traffic stop.
Police in Pennsylvania may no longer withhold their dashcam recordings from the public under an appellate ruling handed down on Monday. A three-judge panel of the Commonwealth Court said the Pennsylvania State Police was wrong to deny a motorist's request for the video recording of a traffic stop.
A trooper patrolling in State College on April 23, 2014, pulled over Casey J. Grove, allegedly because his Nissan Frontier pickup truck had an obstructed license plate. Although Grove on... (more)
Oklahoma City Police Officer Daniel Holtzclaw is charged with 36 counts of rape, sexual battery, indecent exposure, and forcible oral sodomy. His assaults came to the attention of the police department after several women came forward, claiming the officer had sexually assaulted them. (Read the original article by Pete Eyre Here). As of the date of this article, a total of eight women have came forward with claims agai... (more)
A 16-yr-old student committed suicide after a school cop and his principle told him he had ruined his life and would never get into college after he and a few friends were caught smelling like marijuana at their homecoming dance.
Kansas City, MO -- After getting arrested and tased over a simple parking ticket, a store clerk has filed a lawsuit against the officer who used excessive force against him. Although the officer claimed that the clerk stood in a threatening position before he was forced to deploy his Taser, recently released dashcam video revealed that the officer lied and had no reason to lawfully detain the clerk.
On May 31, 2014, Officer Dale Secor approached a car parked perpendicular in ... (more)
Niagara Falls, NY -- Arrested and charged with felony assault, a Niagara Falls police officer has recently been suspended without pay after witnesses reported seeing him kicking and beating a man unconscious with his motorcycle helmet. On Monday, reporters interviewed a previous victim who settled out of court after the same cop arrested and beat her unconscious when she reported her wallet stolen.
On the afternoon of September 5, off-duty officer James Conte was riding his motorc... (more)
The NYPD's Inspector General has just released a report on the department's use of force and there's nothing in it that's good news. It finds that the problem begins at the top and only gets worse from there.
[T]his Report analyzes and evaluates NYPD’s disciplinary system, including a close review of cases where OIG-NYPD, through independent revie
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (CN) - Small-town police used "lies, deception and threats" to send a man to prison for 17 years for a rape and murder they knew he did not commit, he now claims in court.
Jamie Lee Peterson, a then-22-year-old man with depression and cognitive disabilities, says local and state police officers fed him inside information about the 1996 crime as they coerced his "confession," changing their story when DNA evidence pointed away from him.
Carlsbad, CA — A shocking video captured the brutal beating of a mother in front of her two children after she merely asked an officer a question.
Cindy Hahn and her children were on their way home when they stopped to use the restroom. During their stop, Hahn asked a Carlsbad police officer a question.
According to Hahn, the officer responded by telling her to mind her own business. Shocked that the officer would address her in such a manner, Hahn called the ... (more)
When you tell someone that their police department has bayonets, their immediate reaction is denial or ridicule. “Why would cops need bayonets?” they ask.
Exactly, why would cops need bayonets? Why do they need grenade launchers, .50 caliber rifles, Apache attack helicopters, camouflage uniforms, or tracked tank-like vehicles for that matter?
While there are multiple reasons public servants attempt to justify their need for weapons of war, the fact remai... (more)
Owasso, OK -- Owasso police officer, Mike Denton, was fired in 2011 after body cam and surveillance footage showed him stomping on a handcuffed man's head and then repeatedly elbowing him in the face.
The victim was Brian Spalding.
Spalding's arrest was caught on all of the officer's lapel cams and paints a clear picture of excessive force, justifying the city's response of firing Denton.
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After years of not giving a damn and letting the public do its job for it, the FBI is apparently ready to get serious about collecting stats on "police-involved shootings." In a statement released along with the FBI's 2014 Crime Report (tl;dr: most crime down again), FBI director James Comey says the agency will be doing… something&helli... (more)
New York's chief judge on Thursday announced a new plan to overhaul the state's bail law, which he said unjustly punishes the poor and forces them to "serve a sentence before their cases are ever resolved."
Judge Jonathan Lippmann, who is set to retire at the end of the year, made his announcement in a speech at the Citizens Crime Commission breakfast meetin... (more)
Maurice Neblett was just settling into bed on the night of February 14, 2014, when police executed a 'no knock' warrant. Richmond police officers were looking for marijuana when they kicked in his door. The only problem was, the warrant listed the wrong address.
Once inside, the officers placed Neblett in a chokehold and began beating him -- striking him with their fists, feet, knees and blunt instruments. He was also pistol-whipped by police.
Bronx, NY — A mother is regretting her decision to call the police to help her find her son last year after their visit landed the 24-year-old nonverbal autistic man in the hospital.
Ana Baltazar, mother of Miguel Torruella, called 9-1-1 last year after her son went missing. Within an hour, the police had found Torruella. However, lacking the training and subsequent competence to deal with a nonverbal autistic person, the NYPD used the only resource they have to handle the s... (more)
Marshall, MO -- Police refuse to investigate an off-duty officer of using excessive force after mistaking an elderly stroke victim for a drunk driver. Immediately after throwing a 70-year-old man out of his truck, the cop restrained him on the ground by pressing his knee into a blocked artery on the side of the elderly man's neck. Although he repeatedly informed the officer that he was suffering from a stroke, the enraged cop continued to manhandle him until other officers finally arrived. ... (more)
Houston, TX – ATF Agent Marc Delpit is now facing an aggravated assault charge after he beat up a man at his son’s football game and pulled a gun on a crowd of bystanders during the struggle. Delpit claimed that the man and the crowd had threatened him and that he was defending himself, but obviously the crowd of parents saw things differently.
According to Houston Police spokesman Kese Smith, a number of witnesses who saw the incident say that it was Delpit who starte... (more)
Just on the heels of the FBI essentially shrugging off pressure to pin real numbers of police killings of U.S. citizens – a report finds that deaths of people during police high-speed pursuits are drastically under-reported.
USA Today reports on another aspect that often goes forgotten when it comes to safety and law enforcement. How freq... (more)
