
| Ferguson Shows How a Police Force Can Turn Into a Plundering 'Collection Agency'
(Washington Post) posted 03/05/2015 ... harrowing stories buried inside the Justice Department’s report on the Ferguson Police Department, one of the most illustrative begins with an illegally parked car. ... Taping was legal, defense attorneys in wiretap case say (The Patriot News) posted 06/15/2007 ... evidence before deciding whether to prosecute an 18-year-old Carlisle man for taping a police officer during a traffic stop. But two defense attorneys verse ... Texas School Cop Accused Of Demanding To Smell Woman's Socks & Underwear (InformationLiberation) posted 10/28/2014 ... her to 'forget about it' and let her leave. The woman reported the incident to police the next day, and Quinn's fingerprints were found on her insurance card which ... Missouri Police To Control Prisoners With 80,000-Volt “Stun Cuffs” (Disinfo.com) posted 10/01/2013 I’m guessing there are some prankster cops who are going to have a lot of fun using these. ... US Police Have Killed Over 5,000 Civilians Since 9/11 (Mint Press News) posted 11/08/2013 Statistically speaking, Americans should be more fearful of the local cops than “terrorists.” ... Mexican-style Drug Gang “Urban Terrorism” Against Police Comes to California (Los Angeles Times) posted 03/23/2010 ... Wrong Guy (The Agitator) posted 04/30/2012 The City Council approved a $250,000 settlement Wednesday to a man mistaken by police as a tagger and was hit with a stun gun over and over. ... Vandals Break Man's Windshield; Police Ticket Him Outside Repair Shop For Driving With Broken Window (Cop Block) posted 09/09/2015 ... to one Denver man on his way to get his broken windshield fixed. And as if having the police ticket you on the way to the shop wasn’t bad enough. It happened r ... Arbitrator Says Cleveland Cop Who Sexted Crime Victims, Visited Women On Duty, Should Keep Job (Cleveland.com) posted 03/10/2015 CLEVELAND, Ohio -- City officials fired police officer Vincent Lucarelli after the 12-year veteran admitted to 'sexting' with crime victims and visiting women while on duty. B ... California Police Paying Cellphone Companies to Read Texts Without Warrants, Busting Teenage Cannabis Dealers (Intellihub.com) posted 05/30/2013 In Roseville, California, the police are very bored. Instead of investigating thefts, or stopping rape, or crimes with victims, the police are spending most of their time goin ... Caught On Tape: Good Samaritan viciously beaten by police after taking their picture (KWGN) posted 07/22/2011 ... was an unjust traffic stop and offered to help the driver. That’s when Denver Police officer Jeff Cook and Officer John Diaz turned on him. Ashford was be ... May Drug War Mayhem: Five Civilians, Two Police Officers Dead in Separate Incidents (StopTheDrugWar.org) posted 06/02/2015 Police enforcing the drug laws killed five people in separate incidents last month. The victims become the 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, and 29th persons to die in US domestic drug ... Forced Sex With a Cop, Woman Says (Courthouse News Service) posted 11/21/2012 CHICAGO (CN) - A police officer in suburban Justice, Ill. forced a woman into his police cruiser and made her give him a blow job, the married woman claims in Federal Court. ... Video Shows Police Brutally Beat Terminally Ill Man in Front of His Two Young Children (The Free Thought Project) posted 09/11/2014 ... own blood, in front of his children, while pinned under three cops. According to police they were responding to a report of child abuse. Police say when they approac ... Chicago State's Attorney Lets Bad Cops Slide, Prosecutes Citizens Who Record Them (Huffington Post) posted 06/08/2011 When Chicago police answered a domestic disturbance call at the home of Tiawanda Moore and her boyfriend in July 2010, the officers separated the couple to question them indiv ... Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation (The Telegraph) posted 11/30/2009 ... missed. The reason why even the Guardian's George Monbiot has expressed total shock and dismay at the picture revealed by the documents is that their author ... Man Hit With $572 Fine For Ringing Bike Bell (WNBC) posted 08/04/2007 ... bell on his bicycle. Of course, it was 1:45 a.m. and he had already been warned by police twice to stop. 'I just think it's funny that they can do that,' said P ... |