Filming Cops 
ELKHART — Two city police officers will be charged with Class A misdemeanor criminal battery after being accused of using excessive force against a man in their custody in January. A video of the incident released by the Elkhart Police Department shows the man — seated and with his hands bound behind his back — … Read more
CINCINNATI — The city of Cincinnati and Kroger agreed to pay $240,000 to the family of Donesha Gowdy, an 11-year-old girl who was stunned with a Taser while shoplifting, according to a news release from family attorney Al Gerhardstein. Cincinnati Police Department chief Eliot Isaac announced Tuesday the off-duty officer who stunned her had been … Read more
A mistrial has been declared in the trial for a former Michigan State Police trooper charged in a Detroit teenager’s ATV death. Jury members told the judge Tuesday that they couldn’t come to an unanimous verdict . Judge Margaret Van Houten said Wednesday that the court has “no choice but to accept their hung jury … Read more
Two men have come forward to suggest that a police officer is responsible for a teen’s death in a cold case. Edward Wells was found dead in the Mississippi River in 1982. The teen was the victim of sex trafficking for years in the French Quarter. A Times-Picayune story at the time said that Wells … Read more
On Thursday, a sheriff’s office in Kentucky has agreed to pay more than $337,000 for the painful and unconstitutional handcuffing of elementary school students with disabilities. The two plaintiffs, both of whom were children of color and both of whom have disabilities, were so small that the deputy sheriff locked the handcuffs around the children’s … Read more
Kansas – The Hutchinson Police Department this week fired three employees in connection with the handling of a February traffic stop involving an-off duty officer reported to be driving erratically. Another officer was suspended, one was exonerated of wrongdoing and action remains pending against a sixth individual, Hutchinson Police Chief Jeffrey Hooper announced during an … Read more
Two Dallas officers have been terminated after year long investigation. According to reports Chief Renee Hall terminated Major Latoya Porter and Major Paulette Richardson Thursday morning during a hearing. Major Porter was terminated after a year long investigation confirmed she was engaging in adverse conduct back in 2017 by providing preparation courses for the sergeant … Read more
SAN DIEGO — An investigation discovered a North County deputy was found deceptive to a question on a polygraph exam before he was employed with the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department. A transcript from a separate case involving the deputy, which is currently working its way through the federal court system, revealed this new information. … Read more
A Pullman police sergeant charged this week with first-degree custodial sexual misconduct was the focus of a 2016 internal affairs investigation at the Pullman Police Department, which found he had propositioned a female department employee for sex. Sgt. Jerry Daniel “Dan” Hargraves, 49, was arrested and charged Tuesday on an accusation that he received oral … Read more
Police “disappeared” more than 7,000 people at an off-the-books interrogation warehouse in Chicago, nearly twice as many detentions as previously disclosed, the Guardian can now reveal. From August 2004 to June 2015, nearly 6,000 of those held at the facility were black, which represents more than twice the proportion of the city’s population. But only … Read more
A Philadelphia police officer is now on desk duty after a picture of him in Blackface surfaced on social media. Hung Nguyen, a 22-year veteran had been working out of Philadelphia International Airport since 2004. The picture sparked outrage after it was posted on Facebook. Police officials became aware of the image Tuesday night and … Read more
Hours after the brutal beating of two men outside an Andersonville neighborhood nightclub, two friends of an off-duty Chicago police sergeant implicated him in the attack under questioning by a Chicago police detective. The next day, a friend of the victims picked out Sgt. Eric Elkins “immediately and without hesitation” as the main assailant when … Read more