Filming Cops 
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has moved to end a practice that allowed some county sheriffs to pocket leftover from money jail food programs, but advocacy groups said the controversial practice won’t stop unless lawmakers change state law. Ivey directed the state comptroller on Tuesday to stop paying a food service allowance — … Read more
CHICAGO — A police officer has resigned amid an investigation into his response to a woman who said she was being harassed in a Chicago forest preserve for wearing a shirt with the Puerto Rican flag. Footage of the incident, captured on Facebook Live last month, has gone viral, and it even drew the attention … Read more
Police came to North Memorial Medical Center looking for an armed man in a car. They found John Powell, a 48-year-old Minneapolis man, and arrested him at gunpoint on a rainy summer night. But Powell was black — not the white or light-skinned Hispanic person the caller had described. And he was holding a set … Read more
Police are apologizing for pulling their guns on black children after a video showed cops detaining two black kids in a Minnesota Park. But don’t worry, after investigating the incident, the police determined that there was no factual basis for them to draw their guns on the kids and put them in handcuffs. Everything’s fine. … Read more
A former Harlan County sheriff who admitted stealing money from a fund meant to be used for undercover drug purchases was sentenced to five years’ probation Tuesday. Marvin J. Lipfird will serve three months in jail and five months on home incarceration. U.S. District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove also ordered Lipfird to perform 80 … Read more
Racial tension is at a high in the United States with no release in sight. Many feel they may log on to any social media platform and witness a public execution of someone in the black or brown community, or they may see a video demonstrating excessive force or unnecessary violence by the hand of … Read more
For decades, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has struggled to combat secretive cliques of deputies who bonded over aggressive, often violent police work and branded themselves with matching tattoos. A federal judge called out the problem nearly 30 years ago, accusing deputies of running a “neo-Nazi, white supremacist gang” named the Vikings within the … Read more
A prison inmate who makes car stickers and license plates decided to have the last laugh by adding the image of a pig to the official crest on state cruisers. On the 16-inch car door stickers, made by prisoners in Windsor, Vermont, a patch on a cow in a scene with mountains has been changed … Read more
FAIRVIEW, Tenn. – A man said a police officer with a grudge arrested him for shoplifting even though he didn’t steal a thing. According to a complaint, a Hickman County man was wrongfully arrested for shoplifting at the Walmart in Fairview. Staley Forsythe said he was targeted by his adopted son’s biological father who happens … Read more
New Jersey’s Bloomfield Township has agreed to pay $1.6 million to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit brought by a wrongly convicted Black man whose violent arrest by officers was caught on police dashcam. Marcus Jeter reached an agreement with the township Wednesday, July 4, agreeing to drop his suit in exchange for the $1.6 … Read more
NASHVILLE, TN – A former Metro narcotics detective pled guilty for stealing thousands of dollars from crime scenes in federal court Tuesday. James Dunaway, 43, of Old Hickory, was a supervisor with the Metro Nashville Police Department’s Specialized Investigation Division-Narcotics Unit until last November when he resigned from his post after 16 years on the … Read more
SWEETWATER, Tenn. – After being on the run for 10 years, a man wanted by authorities was captured in Panama. Agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation began investigating the theft of money from the evidence room at the Sweetwater Police Department in September 2007. During the course of the investigation, agents developed information that … Read more