The United States has a lot of laws. Too many laws, in fact. In various places in the country, it is illegal to transport water chestnut plants across state lines, receive a shipment of lobsters packed in clear plastic, fake a sick day at work, unknowingly link to a site which hosts extremist views, get … Read more
MAPLEWOOD, New Jersey — About two-and-a-half minutes of video footage and a smattering of police radio recordings have led to two forced retirements, a $280,000 payout, the impending overhaul of a small New Jersey police department, and a federal lawsuit — all while the investigation of what actually happened when police responded to a group … Read more
Former Calgary police constable John Brix-Maffei and the two dozen incidents of violence he wrote about in his book, The Wolf and the Sheepdog, will be investigated by the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT), CBC News has confirmed. The agency has agreed to investigate “possible admissions of criminal conduct” in the book, according to … Read more
Governor Larry Hogan and the Police Department have in part blamed the judiciary for imposing weak sentences on gun offenders. And the city council and mayor’s office have traded barbs over the depth and substance of competing crime plans. But little has been said about the burden that incompetent and sometimes corrupt policing has placed … Read more
The head of the Salt Lake Police Association has watched the country’s outrage over the videos showing a nurse getting arrested for refusing to draw a man’s blood without a warrant and has decided the correct response is to complain that the public got to see what its officers did. Union head Stephen Hartney sent … Read more
The sisters and brothers of a man killed by Sacramento police won a pivotal federal court ruling this week that potentially expands who can legally sue in the aftermath of police shootings and opens a window on more information about the controversial incident. Joseph Mann was shot 14 times in July of last year by … Read more
Magdiel Sanchez, a 35-year-old Latino man, was sitting on his porch in Oklahoma City on Tuesday night as two law-enforcement officers approached his house. He got up and walked toward them, when, according to news reports and a statement, the officers noticed he was holding a metal pipe. They started giving him “verbal commands” to … Read more
It was the spring of 1992, and Rodney King’s LAPD assailants had just been acquitted. The beating wasn’t an isolated incident. It was the culmination of “a massive show of force designed to deliver a strong message to the gangs.” That message included military-style raids like “Operation Hammer” with military equipment such as battering rams … Read more
VERSAILLES, MO. – A Missouri Highway Patrol trooper will spend 10 days in jail for his role in the drowning death of a handcuffed Iowa man. In addition to the “shock time” in the Morgan County jail, Judge Roger Prokes sentenced Trooper Anthony Piercy to two years of supervised probation and ordered him to complete … Read more
NEW YORK — By former pro tennis star James Blake’s account, the man approaching him in 2015 outside his hotel caused no alarm because he looked like an old high school buddy. Blake found out the hard way that it was instead a plainclothes police officer who mistook him for a suspect in a fraud … Read more
When Gerardo Serrano took photos of a border crossing on September 21, 2015, he had no idea he would soon be handcuffed, thrown into a detention cell and see his truck seized by government agents that very same day. During his ordeal, when Gerardo protested how his rights were being violated, one agent bluntly responded … Read more
The controversial arrest of a University Hospital nurse wasn’t the first time Salt Lake City police Detective Jeff Payne had faced an internal investigation for violating department policies, newly released records show. About four years ago, Payne received a written reprimand for allegedly sexually harassing another department employee “over an extended period of time,” internal … Read more