Rick Hurd | Contra Costa Times RICHMOND — A Richmond police officer found with marijuana in his home earlier this year likely won’t be charged with a crime, authorities said, but his future on the police force is undetermined. Veteran K-9 officer Joe Avila has been on paid administrative leave since September, pending an internal … Read more
Philip Messing, Kirstan Conley and Sophia Rosenbaum | The New York Post The protesters are seeing red — but cops are seeing green. RELATED: The Reason We Have a Police State NYPD officers have collected “several million dollars” in overtime because of the flood of activists clogging city streets to demonstrate against pro-cop grand-jury decisions in New York and … Read more
MIAMI — Making you wait in line at checkpoints to check your ID and peer into your car. Taking money from you if you drive ~5 miles over the speed limit to get to work on time. Threatening to lock you inside of a steel cage, or taking more money from you, if you get … Read more
Russell Brandom | The Verge In an announcement today, the White House has pledged $263 million in new federal funding for police training and body cameras, set aside by executive order. The money includes $75 million allocated specifically for the purchase 50,000 cameras for law enforcement officers across the country. RELATED: Cop’s Bodycam Shows Him Calling Over … Read more
2014/11/25 DENVER — A shocking video has surfaced online showing an officer trip and throw a pregnant mother onto the concrete. The mother was 7 and 1/2 months pregnant and impacted the concrete directly on her stomach. We do not yet know whether her baby survived. The incident began when a group of cops detained … Read more
The cop was speeding at 122 kph. The speed limit was only 50 kph. He was not responding to a call and did not have his lights on. Maya Johnson | CTV News The family of a five-year-old boy is considering its legal options upon learning that a police officer will not be charged after … Read more
HAZARD — A police chief has been caught drunk behind the wheel of his car. Officer Tyrone Fields was found in a Taco Bell drive-thru in his car. RELATED: Drunk Cop Crashes Into Motorist and Flees the Scene — Officers Find Him and Escort Him to McDonald’s Instead of Arresting Him He was so drunk, … Read more
HARTFORD — Officer Kelvin Grisales is facing additional charges after being charged for the rape of multiple women in Hartford, Connecticut. Officer Grisales was originally brought in for the sexual assault of one woman, but about a month after he was brought in, investigators also charged him with a violent assault on a prostitute. It … Read more
Vice News On Wednesday, the New Orleans inspector general released a damning report on the city police’s treatment of sexual assault cases. The New York Times reported that, according to the findings, hundreds of reported sexual assault cases were not pursued by the five NOPD detective charged with the task. Only 14 percent of sexual … Read more
WOBURN — Two serious charges against a a former police officer, Evan Robitaille, have been dropped after it was discovered that he was involved in a hit-and-run accident while intoxicated, according to reports. Officer Robitaille confessed to the facts surrounding the charges, but an agreement was reached to drop the charges and give him one … Read more
2014/11/11 SAN JOSE — Officer John Nyunt was the police commander of Pacific Grove in California. Earlier this year he was fired after being charged with wire fraud and extortion. At least one of the charges involved a case where Officer Nyunt found a female victim of a crime, and instead of officially investigating the crime, … Read more
“I became a cop so I could counsel children about the dangers of drugs.” — Officer Griffin YUBA CITY — Officer Clorenzo Griffin has been a police officer in Miami for four years. He was a hardcore advocate for the US government’s War on Drugs. His reason for becoming a cop was so that he … Read more