Filming Cops 
Guards at California prisons violated policy in nearly half the instances they used force on inmates during a six-month period in 2017, state investigators have concluded. In a 47-page report released this week, the California Office of Inspector General said prison staff failed to follow the rules in 48 percent of the 3,709 incidents reported … Read more
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. – It looks like Gwinnett County taxpayers are on the hook for an expensive muscle car bought primarily to get the sheriff back and forth to work. Longtime Gwinnett County Sheriff Butch Conway has always preferred Dodge Chargers as his official use vehicle, but never a Charger like this one. The 2018 Dodge … Read more
FLOYD COUNTY, Ga. – Newly released video of a 2017 incident in Floyd County involving the use of a Taser has been released as the county faces a lawsuit over excessive force allegations. Video from the Floyd County Jail shows deputies laughing as Juan Porter reacts to the sound of a Taser, minutes after a … Read more
A lawyer for the family of a man shot and killed by police in Vineland on Saturday is calling on cops at the scene that day to step forward and report what really happened. The officer who shot and killed Rashaun Washington apparently didn’t follow state guidelines for use of deadly force, according to attorney … Read more
BERKELEY — UC Berkeley fired six police officers Tuesday for sleeping and hanging out on midnight shifts in a campus math library. The firings occurred after a hearing officer upheld Chief Margo Bennett’s decision to terminate the officers, who had been on paid suspension since Oct. 31, according to multiple sources who spoke with the … Read more
Four Jasper, Alabama, police officers were given a two-week suspension and a loss of one week’s pay after they were accused of making a white power symbol with their hands in a photo following an arrest. The photo was originally published on Thursday by The Daily Mountain Eagle following the arrest of a man with … Read more
Riverside, California – A federal grand jury in Riverside, California, returned a five-count indictment against Eric Scott Kindley, 50, a private prisoner transport officer, for crimes related to his sexual assaults of two different females in his custody during two different transports, and for brandishing his firearm during one of the sexual assaults. Count One … Read more
A Connecticut military family is fighting the claim that their son’s 2016 death in Tennessee was an accident. Austin McGeough, a 21-year-old Army specialist stationed in Fort Campbell on the Tennessee-Kentucky border, died when he was hit and run over by at least three vehicles in the early morning hours of Oct. 15, 2016 in … Read more
EL PASO, Texas – Jurors in the trial of Raymond Licon Jr. – the El Paso Police officer charged in the drowning death of his baby son – heard the painful 911 call in which the officer is heard screaming and telling the operator, “I killed my son!” During opening arguments Monday, the prosecution told … Read more
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The state of Missouri has revoked the peace officer license of a former highway patrol trooper who was driving a patrol boat when a handcuffed Iowa man fell out and drowned. The Kansas City Star reports Anthony Piercy’s license was permanently revoked after the Missouri Department of Public Safety reviewed evidence … Read more
California – The San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office has filed charges of voluntary manslaughter against Stanislaus County sheriff’s Deputy Justin Wall in the February 2017 shooting of Evin Olsen Yadegar, a Modesto woman. Yadegar, 46, was shot by Wall in Ripon after a law-enforcement pursuit that began in Salida. Authorities have said she was … Read more
FAIRFIELD, Ohio – The leading candidate for a local police chief job admitted using a three-letter slur for gay men when he was a SWAT unit supervisor, then said he was only joking. A month after his admission, he was promoted to chief. The WCPO I-Team has uncovered more details about Chief Steve Maynard’s conduct … Read more