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(Daily Kos) posted 12/05/2006 ... case, the source said. The government is afraid its treatment of Padilla would 'shock the conscience' of the average jury member, leading to Padilla's release. Espe ... Cop Cleared By Grand Jury For Tasering Great Grandmother During Speeding Stop (Prison Planet) posted 04/02/2010 ... at his wits end, Bieze took her up on the dare and hit her with 50,000 volts from the shock gun. In dash cam footage, Winkfein can be seen collapsing in paralysis on ... Amnesty brings in 90,000 knives (The Times) posted 07/15/2006 Ninety-thousand knives were handed to police during a five-week national amnesty that ended last month. The Government said that police in England and Wales also received ... Hawaii Lets On-Duty Cops Have Sex With Prostitutes, And Police Want To Keep It That Way (The Raw Story) posted 03/21/2014 Police officers in Hawaii are lobbying lawmakers not to repeal a statute that allows them to have sex with prostitutes during the course of legitimate investigations. Aut ... Quartzsite, Arizona Government Still Out Of Control (KGUN9) posted 05/10/2012 The police department itself has been under the microscope as well. Former Police Sergeant William Ponce is among those who signed a complaint last year expressing 'no confid ... Ex-police 'hero' sentenced in scheme to steal heroin (Philly.com) posted 05/28/2011 A former Philadelphia police officer, James Venziale, once commended for valor, was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison today for his role in a scheme to rob a drug deale ... Dealing with the Cops (Jacob G. Hornberger) posted 07/29/2015 ... to dealing with the cops. This is especially true for African-Americans, given that police departments seem to have attracted a disproportionate share of racial bigots to ... Officer Charged in Freddie Gray Death Contends Arrest Was Legal (TIME) posted 05/06/2015 One of the Baltimore police officers who arrested Freddie Gray wants the police department and prosecutor to produce a knife that was the reason for the arrest, saying in cour ... Court upholds "First Amendment" right to film police (Ars Technica) posted 05/29/2014 ... right to film cops in public and has reinstated a lawsuit against a local New Hampshire police department brought by a woman arrested for filming a traffic stop. ... Eyewitnesses Call Cocoa Beach Arrest Police Brutality (WFTV) posted 07/20/2006 COCOA BEACH, Fla. -- A man said Cocoa Beach police went too far during his arrest. He and some eyewitnesses call it a case of police brutality. Eyewitnesses recorded a vi ... N.J. assemblyman views video of his own disputed traffic stop (Philly.com) posted 10/22/2012 ... Township mayor said Friday. 'I was targeted... I was hunted down by this police officer who lied in a police report, lied in the summons he gave to me, lied to me, ... Quebec police arrest teen for allegedly promoting ethnic hatred on Facebook ( The Canadian Press) posted 06/17/2010 ... for allegedly inciting racial hatred through the social networking site Facebook. Police said Tuesday the teen was arrested and charged with using his profile page t ... Police: Let us sedate suspects (Express.co.uk) posted 04/20/2010 POLICE want the power to order dangerous suspects to be injected with a sedative. They claim this would help them deal with people suffering from Excited Delirium Syndro ... Criminalizing Vice Turns Police into Criminals (Will Grigg) posted 11/20/2012 ... father of two children in Florida was paid to lure people into buying drugs from the police so that they could be prosecuted on felony narcotics charges. The informa ... Boy Charged With Murder After Police Fatally Shoot His 15-Year-Old Companion (Huffington Post) posted 05/28/2011 Under state law, police can charge someone with murder when an accomplice is killed during the commission of a crime. Even though Ross didn't pull the trigger, he was charged ... Concerns Raised About Police Conduct in Bicyclist Fatality (SF Bicycle Coalition) posted 08/28/2013 The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition has discovered evidence that the SF Police Department may not have fully and fairly investigated last week’s fatal crash, where 24-ye ... |
