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Brooklyn's Finest; A Trio Of Tragedies

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 03.09.2010 | Entertainment

Read More: Raids, Brooklyn, Richard Gere, Cops, Ethan Hawke, Don Cheadle, Antoine Fuqua, Wesley Snipes, Entertainment News
Jackie K. Cooper

Brooklyn's Finest is a cop movie directed by Antoine Fuqua of Training Day fame. Once again this talented director takes us into the world of the poli...

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Just Rent The Wire:Brooklyn's Finest Is a Mediocre Cop Movie.

Alex Remington | Posted 03.07.2010 | Entertainment

Read More: The Wire, Movie Reviews, Police, Brooklyn's Finest, Antoine Fuqua, Movies, Ethan Hawke, Cops, Entertainment News
Alex Remington

Any time you make a movie about morally conflicted cops battling charismatic drug dealers on city streets, you're going to draw comparisons to The Wire -- and almost inevitably, your movie will come up short.

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Ex-Cop Pleads Guilty In Hurricane Katrina Killing Probe: 2 Shot, Killed On Danziger Bridge

AP | MARY FOSTER and MIKE KUNZELMAN | Posted 02.24.2010 | Home

Read More: West Bank, New Orleans, Ronald Madison, Hurricane Katrina, Michael Lohman, Civil Rights, Danziger, Katrina, Danziger Bridge, Jpso, Nopd, Danziger Bridge Shooting, Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office, Cops, Home News

NEW ORLEANS — In Hurricane Katrina's chaotic aftermath, police shot six people – killing two – as they crossed a bridge in search of...

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'Anal Assault' Officers Acquitted: Officers Richard Kern, Andrew Morales, Alex Cruz Found Not Guilty Of Sodomizing Michael Mineo

AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 02.22.2010 | New York

Read More: Abner Louima, Michael Mineo, Michael Mineo Sodomy, Nypd Anal Assault, Police Brutality, Andrew Morales, Richard Kern, Alex Cruz, Baton, Anal Assault Acquittal, Cops, Anal Assault, New York News

NEW YORK — A New York City police officer accused of sodomizing a drug suspect in a subway station was acquitted Monday after defense attorneys ...

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Woman Charged With Felony For Throwing Snowball At D.C. Cop

Washington City Paper | Jason Cherkis | Posted 02.10.2010 | Local

Read More: Snowballs, Blizzard, Snow Storm, D.C. Police, Snowball Fight, Snowpocalypse, Cops, Local News

It turns out that there was another cop vs. snowball fight incident today. We reprinted an e-mailed account of the snowball incident which took place ...

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Nagi Benson Video: NYPD Caught Kicking, Punching Suspect

Posted 01.29.2010 | New York

Read More: Video, Nypd, Bedford Stuyvesant, Police, Davial Rowe, Police Brutality, Nagi Benson, Cops, New York News

January is turning out to be a bad month for the NYPD, and perhaps a worse one for suspects. Just a week after footage of two police officers beati...

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The Dog on the Elevator and New Media

Norm Stamper | Posted 01.11.2010 | Media

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Kittens, Michael Vick, Chris Grant, Pasado's Safe Haven, Huffington Post, Dogs, Washinton State's Animal Cruelty Laws, Cops, Media News
Norm Stamper

As much as I was revolted by what I saw on the video of a man kicking a dog in an elevator, we must see these images. We should all understand, at a visceral level, what that man did.

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Police Taser Rules: Federal Appeals Court Issues Ruling On Use Of Tasers

McClatchy | Hudson Sangree and Kim Minugh | Sacramento Bee | Posted 12.29.2009 | Home

Read More: Aclu, Deaths, Taser, Tasers, Crime, Police, Police Departments, Excessive Force, Lawsuits, Taser Use, Fourth Amendment, Cops, Home News

A federal appeals court on Monday issued one of the most comprehensive rulings yet limiting police use of Tasers against low-level offenders who seem ...

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Maurice Clemmons Had Kids On Hit List

McClatchy | Adam Lynn | Posted 12.02.2009 | Home

Read More: Arkansas, Huckabee, Washington State, Parkland, Maurice Clemmon, Crime, Washington, Bail, Maurice Clemmons, Lakewood, Seattle, Leschi, Cops, Home News

TACOMA, Wash. -- Maurice Clemmons threatened to kill more than just cops in the days before he massacred four police officers at a coffee shop. Scho...

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Huckabee Granted Clemency To Maurice Clemmons, Person Of Interest, In Ambush That Killed 4 Cops

AP / Huffington Post | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arkansas, Pierce County, Huckabee, Gregoire, Crime, Washington Police Officers Shot, Lakewood, Washington State, Police Offers Shot, Tacoma, Mike Huckabee, Parkland, Mcchord Air Force Base, Fox News, Criminals, Seattle, Forza Coffee, Cops, Politics News

A man with an extensive criminal past -- whose 95-year prison sentence was commuted in Arkansas nearly a decade ago by then-Gov. Mike Huckabee-- was b...

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Lack Of Sleep Increases Cops' Risk Of Disease

Los Angeles Times | Posted 11.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Stroke, High Blood Pressure, Police, Police Officers, Insomnia, New Study, Cardiovascular Disease, Night Shift, Fatigue, Sleep Disorders, Cops, Exhaustion, Sleep, Living News

A new study finds that their schedule may cause cops to develop such conditions such as stroke, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes....

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Bloomberg: Layoffs Likely But Windfall Will Save Police, Firemen Jobs

nydailynews.com | Adam Lisberg and Erin Einhorn | Posted 11.18.2009 | New York

Read More: Taxes, Layoffs, Mayor Bloomberg, Firefighters, Michael Bloomberg, Budget, Jobs, New York City, New York, Cops, New York News

Mayor Bloomberg's administration quietly reported an unexpected tax windfall of $683 million this year - of which $145 million will exempt cops, firef...

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Survivors Of Accused Serial Killer Anthony Sowell Sought By Cleveland Police

AP | THOMAS J. SHEERAN | Posted 11.18.2009 | Home

Read More: Rapist, Serial Killer, Rape, Police, Crime, Ohio, Cleveland Rape Crisis Center, Felon, Sowell Survivors, Sexual Assault, Cleveland Police, Sausage Factory, Murder, Anthony Sowell, Cleveland, House of Horrors, Sowell, Convict, Cops, Home News

CLEVELAND — Now that most of the bodies found at the home of a suspected serial killer have been identified, Cleveland is turning its attention ...

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Does NYPD Detectives' Intense Schedule Encourage Drinking?

Gothamist | [10] | | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

Read More: Alchohol Abuse, New York City, Nypd, Timothy Duffy, New York Police Department, Night Shift, Drinking, Cops, New York News

After a recent drunken driving fatality involving an off-duty NYPD detective, the city detectives union is considering changing the schedule that some...

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Anthony Sowell's Neighbor Says Police Knew About Cleveland Rapist's House

New York Times | IAN URBINA | Posted 11.02.2009 | Home

Read More: Phillip Garrido, Rape, Violence Against Women, Anthony Sowell, Jaycee Lee Dugard, Police, Cleveland, Ohio, Anthony Sowell Rapist, Bodies Found, Sex Offenders, Anthony Sowell Rape, Cops, Sex Offender Tracking, Home News

A neighbor of the convicted rapist in Cleveland who was arrested Saturday night after six decomposed bodies were found in his house said Monday that t...

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Naked Pumpkin Run At Risk: Boulder Colorado Police Threaten Crackdown

Wall Street Journal | STEPHANIE SIMON | Posted 10.31.2009 | Denver

Read More: Downtown Boulder, Rules, Jack O Lanterns, Naked Pumpkin Run Boulder, Mark Beckner, Colorado, Halloween, Naked Pumpkin Run, Sex Offenders, Cops, Matt Appelbaum, Nakedpumpkinrun, Nude, Runners, Naked Pumpkin Run Plan, SWAT Team, nakedpumpkinrun.org, Pumpkin, Boulder, Pumpkins, Aclu, Streak, Denver News

For nearly a decade, naked pumpkin runners did their thing unmolested, stampeding through the frigid dark past crowds of admirers who hooted, hollered...

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Four Year Old Handed Out Cocaine At Newark Daycare, Thought It Was Candy

Joe Territo | Posted 11.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Daycare, Drugs, Newark, New Jersey, Police, Cops, Cocaine, New York News
Joe Territo

Police said the boy's father, afraid of getting caught with cocaine, had hidden it in his son's pockets and told him it was candy.

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Crooked Cops Caught Plotting To Frame Motorist (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 08.29.2009 | Home

Read More: Florida, Traffic Accident, Cops Misbehaving, Cops, Home News

Four Florida police officers are seen in the dashboard camera plotting to blame a traffic accident on the woman one of them had hit with their patrol ...

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L.A. Sheriffs To Use Electric Mini Coopers

gas2.org | Written by Jerry James Stone | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Police, L.A., Electric Cars, Environment, Green, Bmw, Sheriffs, Mini Cooper, Green Living, Los Angeles, Cops, Green News

LA County Sheriffs stuck driving Crown Vics are about to be left feeling tragically un-hip. Their Board of Sups just approved a deal with BMW to lease...

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Ohio Man In Women's Swimsuit Harassed Girls: Police

AP | Posted 07.10.2009 | Home

Read More: Kevin L. Miller, Police, Dayton, Ohio, Public Indecency, Cops, Home News

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Requiem For The Zooted

Barry Michael Cooper | Posted 06.15.2009 | Living

Read More: The-Seventies, Drugs, Harlem, New York City, Angel Dust, Crime, PCP, Cops, Living News
Barry Michael Cooper

I promised myself I would never smoke another $3 bag of angel dust again but that epiphany button was stuck on repeat. Now almost 30 years drug free, the past is but a muffled procession of memories.

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Hate-talk Radio's Michael Savage's Real-life "Streets of San Francisco" Encounter with SFPD, Film Crew

Bill Mann | Posted 05.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Cops,, San Francisco, Right Wing Talk Radio, Michael Krasny, Kgo, Michael Savage, Sfpd, Herb Caen, San Francisco-California, Media News
Bill Mann

I've had the sad journalistic duty of writing about this pathetic-but-popular hatemonger longer than anyone, ever since this braying bigot first surfaced on San Francisco's top-rated radio station.

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"Cops" For Kids! (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 04.06.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Video, Cops for Kids, Funny Videos, Cops for Children, Cops Tv Show, Wtf, Cops for Kids Video, Kids Cops, Cops, Comedy News

Gabe over at Videogum found this amazing video from Sunset Television that reworks a typically not-safe-for-kids episode of "Cops" into a seriously-sa...

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No Connection Between Police Hiring Lag And Rising Crime: Daley

Chicago Tribune | Carlos Sadovi | Posted 10.29.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Daley Police, Chicago Mayor Police, Daley Cops, Richard Daley, Cops, Chicago News

Mayor Richard Daley on Saturday dismissed the notion that his administration's failure to make good on a pledge to hire more police is affecting publi...

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Barack Obama is the President -- Why are Black People Still So Mad?

Michael Gene Sullivan | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: 1984, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Police, Political Drama, Satire, Violence, Police Brutality, Obama, Black, Justice, San Francisco, African Americans, Civil Rights, Election, Cops, Politics News
Michael Gene Sullivan

A calm day. A sunny, day, for San Francisco - which means really foggy with what will ultimately be an unfulfilled promise of sun later. A nice day, w...

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