Police Corruption

New York State Police Prostitution Scandal

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Michael Petritz, Prostitution, Video, New York Crime, Police Corruption, Titus Taggart, Crime, Crime News, New York State Police, Jeremy Smith, Crime News

Three state troopers in western New York have been suspended as part of a State Police investigation into allegations that at least one of the trooper...

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WATCH: Secret Gang For Deputies Who Have Shot Gang Members

Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Jump Out Boys, Video, Police Corruption, 3000 Boys, LA Secret Gang, LA Gang Unit, Police Controversy, Jump Out Boys LA, LA Gangs, LA Cop Gang, LA Sheriff Controversy, LA Police Gang, LA Sheriff, Gangs, Los Angeles News

LA County sheriff's detectives have launched an investigation into an alleged secret officer clique called the "Jump Out Boys." Deputies gain membersh...

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Feds: Philly Cop Used Prisoner Debit, Credit Cards

AP | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Corruption, Police Corruption, Prison, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Crime, Charles Jacoby, Cop Uses Prisoner Credit Cards, Charles Jacoby Dismissed, Crime News

PHILADELPHIA -- Federal authorities say a Philadelphia police officer tasked with protecting the belongings of jailed suspects instead used their debi...

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Entire City's Police Force Detained In Organized Crime Investigation

AP | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Linares, Police Corruption, Drug War, Drug Violence, Linares Police Detention, Mexico Corruption, Mexico, Mexico Police, Linares Police, World News

MONTERREY, Mexico -- The entire police force of the northern Mexico city of Linares is being held for investigation of possible corruption and ties to...

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Wake Up Call: Civil Rights Abuses in Puerto Rico Highlight Need for All Americans to Pay Attention to the Island

Melissa Mark-Viverito | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Latinos, Puerto Rico, Unemployment, President Obama, Luis Gutierrez, Police Corruption, Department of Justice, Luis Fortuno, Civil Rights, Latino Politics, Latino Voices News

All American citizens, islander and mainlander, ought to encourage the DOJ to continue monitoring the situation in Puerto Rico, especially to ensure that opponents of the Fortuño agenda are not silenced.

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Nigeria: Too Big To Fail

www.theatlantic.com | G. Pascal Zachary | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: Abuja-Nigeria, African Corruption, Police Corruption, Terrorism, Nigerian Bombing, The Atlantic, African Politics, Nigeria, Abuja, Terrorism in Africa, Black Voices News

A remote country faces a home-grown Muslim terrorism threat. The terrorists appear linked to al-Qaeda. The victimized country, despite its hapless pol...

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New Orleans Probe Demonstrates Need for Implementing Systemic Reforms Within Nation's Police Departments

Kami Chavis Simmons | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: New Orleans Police, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Police Corruption, Police, Danziger Bridge Shooting, Lapd, Crime News

The testimony and subsequent guilty verdicts in the Danziger Bridge trial have exposed institutional deficiencies that encourage police misconduct and corruption. These issues are neither new nor unique to New Orleans.

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Court Tosses Hearsay Against Ill. Cop Charged In Ex-Wife's Slay

Patch | Joseph Hosey | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Murder, Wife, Ex-Wife, Divorce, Police Corruption, Police, Bolingbrook, Illinois, Crime News

Whether or not Drew Peterson's dead third wife predicted he would kill her, or his missing fourth wife confided in a divorce attorney that he committe...

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Florida School Bus Monitor Accused Of Operating Underage 'Sex Slave' Prostitution Ring

HuffingtonPost.com | Sonja Sharp | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Sex Slavery, Rape, Police Corruption, Police, Sex Ring, Police Officers, Prostitution Ring, Sex Trafficking, School Bus, Sexual Assault, Human Trafficking, Haines City, Prostitution, Polk County, Child Sex Trafficking, Underage Sex, Florida, Underage Prostitution, Crime News

A Florida cop and a school bus monitor were arrested Thursday in connection with a child prostitution ring, Polk County Sheriff's Office said in a sta...

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Sakey's Newest Suffers in Comparison to His Earlier Works

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Blackmail, Marcus Sakey, Television Writer, Police Corruption, Amnesia, Books News

Marcus Sakey is a talented writer that America has not yet discovered, and it is about time they did.

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Fallen Shows the Extraordinary Talent of Karin Slaughter

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Edgar Allan Poe, Karin Slaughter, Hostage Situation, Police Corruption, Atlanta, Georgia, Crime Fiction, Books News

Fallen is Karin Slaughter's latest novel and once again she carries forward the characters she has created in her past novels. Each of her books stand...

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Love You More: A Mystery Novel That Makes Sense

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Spousal Abuse, Boston Police, Police Corruption, Lisa Gardner, Kidnapping, Mystery Novels, Murder Mystery, Books News

Love You More is some of Lisa Gardner's best writing to date. Her plot is amazing in its intensity and its complexity.

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Police Corruption in Nigeria

Human Rights Watch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nigeria, Human Rights, Police-Corruption, Africa, World News

By Corinne Dufka, senior West Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch Widespread corruption in the Nigeria Police Force is fueling abuses against o...

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Broken: Karin Slaughter's Chilling Story About Damaged People

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drug Use, Karin Slaughter, Police Corruption, Murder, Fbi, Mystery Novels, Murder Mystery, Books News

Karin Slaughter weaves a spell of interest that keeps you entranced from beginning to end. Very few authors have this talent, but Slaughter has it in spades.

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Cops in Caracas -- and LA

Nora Zimmett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anti-Semitism, South America, Hugo Chavez, Police Corruption, Latin America, Venezuela Anti-Semitism, Bribery, Lapd, Caracas, Los Angeles Budget, Caracas-Venezuela, Los Angeles News

Last week I got a moving violation. I admitted to myself, in a brief moment of clarity, that at least I had broken the law -- not always the case in Venezuela.

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Entire Police Department Of Mexican Town Implicated In Killings, Kidnappings

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Central American Migrants, Police Corruption, Tierra Blanca, Mexico Drug War, Mexico, Mexico Police, Immigration, Mexico Police Corruption, Mexico Drug Wars, World News

MEXICO CITY — Scores of police officers – including the entire department of one town – have been detained in Mexican probes of kill...

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Vito Scavo Gets Six Years: Ex Melrose Park Police Chief Convicted Of Extortion

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Police Corruption, Illinois Corruption, Extortion, Chicago Suburbs, Vito Scavo, Melrose Park, Chicago News

Former Melrose Park Police Chief Vito Scavo was sentenced to six years in prison today for extorting business owners in town to hire his private secur...

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"That's What Real Policemen Do; They Stand Up for Each Other"

Norm Stamper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drug Prohibition, Police Corruption, Narcs, Drug War, Dea, Drug Busts, Cleveland, War on Drugs, Narcotics Officers, Politics News

Cops lie for reasons embedded in the history, structure, and culture of the institution itself. Too many drug cops wind up lying to their bosses.

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Cannes 2009: The Underside of the Philippines

Karin Badt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Police Corruption, Prostitution, Kinatay, Cannes 2009, Brillante Mendoza, The Philippines, Cannes, Cannes-France, Entertainment News

What I want to show in my film is the abuse of power; the police are like god. They can butcher people. I don't expect people to like the film, but I want them to think about it after they go to bed.

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Chicago Police Mobile Strike Force, A.K.A. SOS 2: Someone Call Patrick Fitzgerald!

Tracy Siska | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Police Abuse, Police Corruption, Patrick Fitzgerald, Special Operations Section, Police Tactical Units, CPD SOS, Jody Weis, Chicago Police Department, Mobile Strike Force, Civil Rights, Chicago News

Weis has done what all Chicago Police Superintendents before him have done: use the excuse of a crime spike to institute a special unit that will most likely go bad.

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