Cops

CAR CRASH: The Wildest Police Chase Video Ever?

HuffingtonPost.com | David Moye | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Video, Dumb Crime, Caught on Tape, Car Crash Videos, Spike TV, Weird Photos and Videos, World's Wildest Police Videos, Weird Photos & Videos, Weird Florida, Paul Stojanovich, Police Videos, Cops, Weird News News

The back of a squad car doesn't sound like an ideal place to grow up, but Paul Stojanovich, Jr. wouldn't have had it any other way. Stojanjovich is...

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Police Surveillance Tactics Raise Privacy Concerns

nytimes.com | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Local Police, Police Phones, Police, Police Surveillance, Cellphone Tracking, Phone Tracking, Police Phone Tracking, Cops, Technology News

WASHINGTON -- Law enforcement tracking of cellphones, once the province mainly of federal agents, has become a powerful and widely used surveillance t...

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WATCH: Drunk Guy Belts Out Queen In Police Cruiser

Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Queen, Drunk, Arrested Bohemian Rhapsody, Video, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Drunk Bohemian Rhapsody, Freddie Mercury, Police, Bohemian Rhapsody, Intoxicated Bohemian Rhapsody, Cops, Comedy News

"Bohemian Rhapsody" is one of those songs that's impossible not to sing along to. No matter the location, once somebody belts out "Is this the real li...

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Why New England Town Wants $286,000 Police 'Tank'

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 02.17.2012

Read More: Keene New Hampshire, Video, Keene, Police Tank New Hampshire, Police Tank, Drug War, Police, Crime, Free State, Terrorism, New Hampshire, Free Keene, Police Militarization, Cops, Politics News

"We're going to have our own tank." That's what Keene, N.H., Mayor Kendall Lane whispered to Councilman Mitch Greenwald during a December city coun...

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High School Cop Under Fire For Gynecologist "Dr. Harry Beaver" Costume

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: High School, School Cops, Education, School Police Officers, Police Inappropriate Behavior, Police, Police Officers, Cops, Education News

Donnie Riggins, the resource cop for Lake Brantley High School in Florida, was let go on Friday after he came to school dressed as a gynecologist by t...

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The Media Bias No One Talks About

John Stoehr | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: UC Davis, Police, #Occupywallstreet, Uc Davis Pepper Spray, Media Bias, Cops, Occupy Wall Street, Media News

These are not conflicts between rivals of equal proportion, as "clash" connotes. These are incidents of police violence and media should start calling it for what it is. With so much amateur video, the media has little choice but to set aside convention and report what's happening.

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Some New OWS Questions...

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Joe the Nerd, Courts, Cops, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, Politics News

As police start using violence to quell the OWS protests, the real question becomes: Can the government control itself? What does it mean?

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Police Who Detained Councilman To Be Disciplined

Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Nypd Scandals, Jumaane Williams, Nypd, West Indian Day Parade, Cops, New York News

The New York Police Department has disciplined three officers who may have racially profiled, then detained a member of city council and another city ...

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Occupy Protests

Jeff Danziger | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Political Cartoon, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Cops, Politics News

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17 Cops Indicted in Ticket-Fixing Probe, Face Arrest Next Week

| Murray Weiss | Posted 11.24.2011

Read More: Ticket Fixing, Nypd, Crime, Ny News, Cops, Ticket Fixing Scandal, Nypd Scandals, New York News

A grand jury has indicted all 17 cops who were targeted by prosecutors in a massive NYPD ticket-fixing scandal that started with a tip about a rogue...

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WATCH: Murder-For-Hire Case Featured In Controversial COPS Episode

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Dalia Dippolito Murder for Hire, Video, Crime News, Crime, Michael-Dippolito, Dalia Dippolito, Florida, Cops Tv Show, Cops Dalia Dippolito, Cops Dippolito, Slidepollajax, Cops, Crime News

A Florida newlywed convicted of hiring a hitman to kill her husband will be featured in a controversial episode of the reality television series COPS ...

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Have Police Departments Become More Militarized Since 9/11?

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Law Enforcement, Police Militarization, Weapons, September 11 Anniversary, Swat Teams, Cops, Norm Stamper, Decade-After-911---National-Security, Crime News

New York magazine reported some telling figures last month on how delayed-notice search warrants -- also known as "sneak-and-peek" warrants -- have be...

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Are Gangsters Playing Cop Lotto With Your Tax Payer Money?

Karen Salmansohn | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Police Misconduct, Cop Lotto, Wrongful Conviction, Police Lawsuits, Chicago Cops, Flipping Testimony, Flipped Testimony, Chicago Wrongful Conviction, Chicago Police, Cops, Crime News

What you presently know to be true about wrongful conviction cases might not be the whole truth.

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Cops: Florida Teen, Killed Parents, Then Had A Party

AP | MATT SEDENSKY | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Murder, Port St. Lucie, Tyler Hadley, Police, Party, Kill, Mary-Jo Hadley, Teen, Florida, Black Hadley, Arrest, Cops, Parents, Video, Crime News

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A 17-year-old boy is accused of bludgeoning his parents with a hammer, then hosting dozens of friends for a party while ...

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GRAPHIC VIDEO: Cops Checking Muni Fares Kill Fleeing Suspect

Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Bayview Police Shooting, Video, Shooting, Muni, Bayview Shooting, San Francisco Police Department, Greg Suhr, Bayview Police Shooting Video, Sfpd, Muni Police Shooting Video, Sfpd Greg Suhr, Muni Shooting, Police Shooting, Cops, San Francisco News

UPDATE: According to The Examiner, Kenneth Harding, the 19-year-old killed by San Francisco police in a shootout Saturday, was a convicted pimp accuse...

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GRAPHIC VIDEO: Cops Checking Muni Fares Kill Fleeing Suspect

Aaron Sankin | Posted 09.16.2011

Read More: Bayview Police Shooting, Video, Shooting, Muni, Bayview Shooting, San Francisco Police Department, Greg Suhr, Bayview Police Shooting Video, Sfpd, Muni Police Shooting Video, Sfpd Greg Suhr, Muni Shooting, Police Shooting, Cops, San Francisco News

On Saturday afternoon, a 19-year old man was shot and killed by police conducting a routine Muni fare inspection in the Bayview. (SCROLL DOWN FOR A...

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Georgia Police Bust Girls' Lemonade Stand

AP | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Weird Midway, Weird Georgia, Police, Lemonade, Georgia, Lemonade Stand, Lemonade Stand Bust, Cops, Midway, Weird News News

MIDWAY, Ga. -- Police in Georgia have shut down a lemonade stand run by three girls trying to save up for a trip to a water park, saying they didn't h...

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New Shooting, Same Question: Should Transit Cops Have Guns?

Turnstyle | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Politics News, Oscar Grant, Charles Hill, Police, Oakland, Bart, Youth Radio, Transit, Transit Police, Guns, Tasers, Mehserle, Cops, Media News

Originally published on Turnstylenews.com, a digital information service surfacing emerging stories in news, entertainment, art and culture; powered ...

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Chicago Cops Win 24-Hour 'Cooling Off' Period After Shootings

Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Fraternal Order of Police, Shootings, Police Shootings, Crime, Police, Chicago Crime, Independent Police Review Authority, Chicago Police Department, Cooling Off Period, Cops, Chicago News

Though the Independent Police Review Authority (IPRA) had previously required any Chicago police officers involved in a shooting to talk with investig...

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Myths Of The Criminal Justice System: Part 2

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement, False Confessions, Criminal Justice System, Bill O'Reilly, Innocence Project, Nancy Grace, Cops, Crime News

Note: As part of this week's launch of the HuffPost's Crime vertical, senior writer and criminal justice reporter Radley Balko outlines 10 popular myt...

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On 40th Anniversary Of War On Drugs, Cops Decry Obama's Drug Policy

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Leap, Police, Richard Nixon, Drug Czar, Gil Kerlikowske, 112th Congress, Obama Administration, Obama, Drugs, War on Drugs, Marijuana Legalization, Drug Wars, Drug Policy, Cops, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Forty years after President Richard Nixon first declared a war on drugs, the officers who fought in it are calling for a truce. Forme...

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Cops Hunting Serial Mugger Preying On Manhattan Women

nypost.com | POST STAFF REPORT | Posted 08.03.2011

Read More: New York Crime, NY Crime, Mugger, Nypd, Serial Mugger, Crime, Manhattan Mugger, Cops, New York News

Cops said today that they are looking for a brazen, knife-wielding thug who has been terrorizing women across a part of Manhattan for the past month. ...

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Chaos At JPMorgan Chase Shareholer Meeting

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Deficit, Social Security, Wall Street, Bailout, Maced, Police, Jpmorgan, Budget, Chase, Robin Hood, Banks, Shareholder Meeting, Cops, Protesters, Video, Business News

This article has been updated WASHINGTON -- Police maced several elderly protesters Tuesday at JPMorgan Chase's annual shareholder meeting in Colum...

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Shutdown: Washington Workers Could Be Collateral Damage

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Firefighters, District of Columbia, Government Shutdown, Barack Obama, House Republicans, Libraries, Cops, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- If the Obama administration and House leadership can’t strike a budget deal within the next few hours, here are just a few things that...

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Parents Plead With School District: 'Keep Cops On Campus'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Students, Campus Safety, Police, Poll, New York, Cops, School Safety, Troy City School District, School Violence, Video, Education News

In New York's Troy City School District, parents are pleading with administrators to keep full-time police in schools. This comes after an announcemen...

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