05 Jan 2015 A Kentucky police officer is recovering from injuries after accidentally shooting himself in an elevator, authorities said over the weekend. Cincinnati police told WCPO that Erlanger Officer Darryl Jouett was heading back to his car after having dinner with his wife when the incident occurred on Saturday. In video released on Monday, … Read more
NEPTUNE, New Jersey – A private investigator hired by the township to look into two female officers’ allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination in the Neptune Township Police Department largely concluded the claims were not credible, a long-secret report stated. A redacted version of the investigator’s 2014 report on the allegations was released Tuesday afternoon, … Read more
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Two police officers from the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., were arrested this weekend in Miami Beach in separate cases, authorities said. Prince George’s County police officers Charles Williams Jr., 25, and Steven Pascal, 27, were taken into custody this weekend, the Miami Beach Police Department said. Williams faces a charge … Read more
The sheriff of a county profiled by the Guardian after it was found to have the highest rate of killings by police in the US once said it is “better financially” for local authorities if officers kill suspects rather than badly injure them. Sheriff Donny Youngblood of Kern county, California, who is currently running for … Read more
UK – Police cars were mistakenly filled with the wrong type of fuel nearly 300 times last year at a cost of more than £50,000 in repairs. Of the UK’s 45 police forces, 33 admitted paying out for repairs to a police vehicle after misfuelling last year at an average cost of £178 a time, … Read more
31 Jan 2015 In a video uploaded by New Rochelle’s Talk of the Sound, a New York police officer can be seen holding several teens at gunpoint after responding to a 911 call. In the video, the officer can be seen pointing his weapon at the kneeling teens, telling them “Don’t f*cking move, guys,” as … Read more
20 April 2016 Video taken from a police cruiser dash cam shows that sheriff’s deputies made no attempt to save three drowning Florida teens who drove into a cemetery pond after stealing a car last month. 16-year-old Dominique Battle, 15-year-old Ashaunti Butler, and 15-year-old Laniya Miller all died on March 31, following a car chase … Read more
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A federal judge on Thursday refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a man who was arrested, charged and ultimately acquitted for creating a parody Facebook page mocking the Parma Police Department. U.S. District Judge Dan Polster ruled Thursday that the First Amendment protected Anthony Novak’s right to create the fake page … Read more
34-year-old, Ainsley Johnson, has had quite the troubled past. Since 2008, Johnson, who just so happens to be a registered sex offender, has been arrested a total of twelve times dating back to ’08 where he was convicted of rape during an incident Queens, NY and booked for attempted sexual battery during another sexual offense … Read more
A jury has found a former Newark police officer guilty of impersonating a police officer and making false reports. Eddie Gonzalez handed in his badge in 2008 but continued to wear his police uniform in public to get favors, prosecutors contended. For example, when he met a woman in 2013, Gonzalez, sporting a Newark police … Read more
04 Sept 2015 A black Rhode Island man already had his cellphone out and was recording when he was pulled over by a Providence police officer for the crime of having an air freshener dangling from his rear view mirror, the Providence Journal reports. “What’s the problem, big dude? What’s the problem?” Dana Harris Jr. … Read more
3/23/2016 March 17 was a regular workday for Brooklyn, N.Y., mail carrier Glen Grays, 27, until he was almost hit by an unmarked police car carrying plainclothes police officers, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said in a Tuesday press conference, according to Bed-Stuy Patch. Grays apparently didn’t realize that the men were cops and allegedly … Read more