Police Misconduct

Analysis: Cops Accused In Multiple Misconduct Suits Cost City Millions

Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Chicago Police Brutality, Independent Police Review Authority, Police Misconduct, Police Brutality, Chicago Police Department, Chicago Police Misconduct, Chicago News

Police misconduct in Chicago is costing the city millions -- and, per a new analysis, a large portion of the city payouts can be traced back to police...

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Filmmaker Files Lawsuit Over 'Trekkie Traffic Stop'

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Search and Seizure, Video, Collinsville Illinois, Drug War, Police, Terrance Huff, Police Misconduct, Terrance Huff Michael Reichert, Michael Reichert, Asset Forfeiture, Illinois, War on Drugs, Terrance Huff Lawsuit, Fourth Amendment, Star Trek, Politics News

Filmmaker Terrance Huff has filed a lawsuit against the city of Collinsville, Illinois, and Collinsville police officer Michael Reichert over a traffi...

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PHOTOS: Cops Shoot Playful Chihuahuas, Elderly Labs

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Video, Pets, Cop Shoots Dog, Police, Police Misconduct, Police Brutality, Slidepollajax, Puppycide, Dogs, Politics News

Last week, Austin, Texas, Police Chief Art Acevedo publicly apologized to Michael Paxton over the death of his dog Cisco. Paxton was playing fetch wit...

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Police Chief Decides Fate Of Cop Who Sped On Beach

Posted 04.20.2012

A three-month investigation by the Sun Sentinel revealed that South Florida cops are some of the worst offenders of reckless driving. Since 2004, cops...

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Granny Defends Her Rights

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Police Brutality, Baltimore, Fourth Amendment, Venus Green, Police Misconduct, Politics News

In one of the more unusual police brutality lawsuits in recent years, 90-year-old Baltimore resident Venus Green was awarded a $95,000 settlement earl...

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WATCH: Should This YouTube Video Get Police Officer Fired?

Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Eric Dominguez, Video, Cops on South Beach, Miami Beach Police, Officer Eric Dominguez, Police Misconduct, Miami Beach News, Miami News, Miami Beach Cop Speeding, Cop Speeding on South Beach, Youtube, Miami Beach Police Chief Raymond Martinez, Relieved of Duty, Miami Beach Cops, Miami Crime, Miami News

A Miami Beach Police officer has been relieved of duty after a video posted to YouTube showed him speeding so fast on South Beach that his patrol car ...

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Opa-Locka Sgt. German Bosque May Be Florida's Dirtiest Cop: Report

Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Florida News, Police, Police Misconduct, Miami News, German Bosque Internal Affairs Investigations, Opa-Locka Police Department, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, German Bosque, Florida's Dirtiest Cop, Miami News

German Bosque just might be one of the worst repeat offenders in Opa-Locka, the Arabian Nights-themed Miami-Dade city well-known for its troubles with...

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We Must Insist on Accountability for Wrongful Convictions

John Conroy | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Wrongful Conviction, Randy Steidl, Center on Wrongful Convictions, Chicago Police Misconduct, Police Misconduct, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Armchair Detective, Chicago News

Wrongful convictions have ruined lives and wasted tax dollars. They represent a shameful and reprehensible miscarriage of justice. But a measure of accountability can still be salvaged, even decades after the fact.

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LA Sheriff Under Fire After Report Slams Jails

AP | By THOMAS WATKINS | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Aclu, Los Angeles Jails, LA County Sheriff Abuse, Police Misconduct, Police Brutality, Los Angeles County Sheriff, Los Angeles County Police, Men's Central Jail, Black Voices News

LOS ANGELES -- Criminal justice, religious and civil rights leaders requested a broader federal investigation Thursday into allegations of abuse in Lo...

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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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N.J. Supreme Court Orders Changes To Use Of Eyewitness Evidence

AP | BETH DeFALCO | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Politics News, Supreme Court Chief Justice Stuart Rabner, Larry Henderson, New Jersey, Crime News, Courts, Crime, Police Misconduct, Eyewitness Identification, Court System, New Jersey Court, New Jersey Supreme Court, Stuart Rabner, Eyewitness, Politics News

TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey's highest court ordered changes Wednesday to the way eyewitness identifications are used, saying the current system i...

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Three Months After Pima County SWAT Team Kills Jose Guerena: No Arrests, No Apologies

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: SWAT Raid, Clarence Dupnik, Police, Police Misconduct, Jose Guerena, Drug Raid, SWAT Team, Brian Miller, Police Abuse, Republican Party, Pima County, Crime News

Jose Guerena, a 26-year-old Marine and Iraq war veteran, was killed May 5 when a SWAT team broke into his home a little after 9:30 a.m. According to G...

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Rochester Woman Arrested After Videotaping Police From Her Own Front Yard

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Videotaping-Police, Emily Good, Video, New York Crime, Crime, Rochester, Police Misconduct, Ryan Acuff, Rochester-Police, New York News

NEW YORK -- In May, the Rochester Police Department arrested a woman on a charge of obstructing governmental administration after she videotaped sever...

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Suburban Cop Accused Of Shooting Spree To Appear In Court

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brian Dorian, Chicago Suburbs, Lynwood Police, Will County, Police Shooting, Lynwood Cop Shooting, Police Misconduct, Chicago News

CHICAGO — A suburban Chicago police officer suspected in a shooting spree in Illinois and Indiana that left one man dead and two other people wo...

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Illinois Supreme Court: Police Dispatcher's Tip To Drug Dealer Was Not A Crime

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Official Misconduct, Illinois Supreme Court, Glenwood, Police Misconduct, Carmecita Williams, Glenwood Police Misconduct, Chicago News

While a police officer tipping off a drug dealer about an ongoing investigation certainly sounds illegal, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday th...

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On a Day Against Police Brutality, Let's Talk About Stop-and-Frisk

Nahal Zamani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Police Brutality, Stop-and-Frisk, Stop and Frisk, Nypd, Racial Discrimination, Racial Profiling, Police Misconduct, Statistics, New York News

Stop, question and frisk, as implemented by the NYPD, is an over-used, ineffective and racist law enforcement practice with serious consequences for police-community relations.

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Lawsuit Over Illinois Deputy's Alleged Stun Gun Abuse Of Children Settled For $750,000

AP | JIM SUHR | Posted 05.25.2011

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EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — A federal lawsuit that accused a southern Illinois sheriff's deputy of zapping three children with a stun gun at an emerg...

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William Christie, Niles Cop, Accused Of Stealing Cash From Dead Man

NBC Chicago | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: William Christie, Niles, Police Rob Corpse, Theft, Niles Police, Police Misconduct, Chicago, Chicago News

In November 2009, Officer William Christie, 48, responded to a call at a YMCA facility in Niles that a resident had died in his room, but before he le...

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After Fatal Beating, Racial Tension, and Police Corruption, Shenandoah Inches toward Justice

John Amaya | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Luis Ramirez, U.S. Department of Justice, Derrick Donchak, Police Misconduct, Violence, Kicking, Indictments, Fbi, Beating, Conspiracy, Civil Rights Division, Federal Indictments, Extortion, Thomas E. Perez, Justice, Fatal Beating, Obstruction of Justice, Commission of a Hate Crime, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Bigotry, Petty Infraction, Hate, Crime, Pa, Shenandoah, Police Officer Jason Hayes, Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice, Brandon Piekarsky, Lieutenant William Moyer, Maldef, Official Misconduct, Federal Grand Jury, Damning Evidence, Criminal Charges, State Trial, Hitting, Shenandoah Police Chief Matthew Nestor, Tampering With Evidence, Racial Slurs, Nclr, National Council of La Raza, Home News

In the case of the fatal beating of Luis Ramirez, a federal grand jury recently delivered indictments that included the commission of a hate crime, obstruction of justice, official misconduct, and extortion.

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Cop Who Was Hero Of NIU Shooting Put On Leave Amid Probe

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Donald Grady, Donald Grady NIU, Northern Illinois University, Northern Illinois Shooting, Justin Weaver, NIU Police Chief, Police Misconduct, Chicago News

CHICAGO — A tough-talking police chief hailed as a hero for leading his men into a Northern Illinois University classroom last year after a gunm...

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Cops Punished For Photo With Cuffed G-20 Suspect

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — A Chicago police spokesman says two high-ranking officers have been reprimanded after a video surfaced that showed officers posing wit...

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Complaints Against NYPD At All-Time High In 2009

WNYC | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nypd, Civilian Complaint Review Board, Crime, Police Misconduct, New York Police Department, New York City, New York, New York News

The Civilian Complaint Review Board says that last year a total of 7,674 New Yorkers complained about police misconduct, an all-time high....

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Cop Dismissed For Watching Porn In Police Cruiser

NBC Chicago | ANDREW GREINER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Billy E. Hurst, Police Porn, Police Misconduct, Illinois Cop Porn, Chicago News

A perverted cop from downstate Illinois will have to look for a new job....

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Cops Probed Over Picture With Handcuffed Student (WATCH)

AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: G20 Summit, Video, Police Misconduct, Kyle Kramer, Chicago Police Department, G20 Chicago Police, Chicago Police Misconduct, G20 Protests, g20 Police, Chicago Police Pittsburgh, Chicago News

CHICAGO - (AP) The Chicago Police Department is investigating several of its officers accused of forcing a college student they arrested during last m...

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Community-Based Justice in New York

Cyrus Vance | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Henry Louis Gates, Racial Profiling, Police Misconduct, New York News

Radical racial disparity in "Stop and Frisk" is undeniable. In an attempt to make our city safer, these practices actually make it more dangerous.

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