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Brooklyn's Finest; A Trio Of Tragedies

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 03.09.2010 | Entertainment


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...

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

Alex Remington | Posted 03.07.2010 | Entertainment


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.

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


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

'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


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

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

Washington City Paper | Jason Cherkis | Posted 02.10.2010 | Local


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 ...

Nagi Benson Video: NYPD Caught Kicking, Punching Suspect

Posted 01.29.2010 | New York


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...

The Dog on the Elevator and New Media

Norm Stamper | Posted 01.11.2010 | Media


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.

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


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 ...

Maurice Clemmons Had Kids On Hit List

McClatchy | Adam Lynn | Posted 12.02.2009 | Home


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...

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

AP / Huffington Post | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics


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...

Lack Of Sleep Increases Cops' Risk Of Disease

Los Angeles Times | Posted 11.19.2009 | Living


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

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

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


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

Survivors Of Accused Serial Killer Anthony Sowell Sought By Cleveland Police

AP | THOMAS J. SHEERAN | Posted 11.18.2009 | Home


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

Does NYPD Detectives' Intense Schedule Encourage Drinking?

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


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

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

New York Times | IAN URBINA | Posted 11.02.2009 | Home


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...

Naked Pumpkin Run At Risk: Boulder Colorado Police Threaten Crackdown

Wall Street Journal | STEPHANIE SIMON | Posted 10.31.2009 | Denver


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

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

Joe Territo | Posted 11.21.2009 | New York


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.

Crooked Cops Caught Plotting To Frame Motorist (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 08.29.2009 | Home


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 ...

L.A. Sheriffs To Use Electric Mini Coopers

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


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...

Ohio Man In Women's Swimsuit Harassed Girls: Police

AP | Posted 07.10.2009 | Home


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Requiem For The Zooted

Barry Michael Cooper | Posted 06.15.2009 | Living


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.

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


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.

"Cops" For Kids! (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 04.06.2009 | Comedy


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...

No Connection Between Police Hiring Lag And Rising Crime: Daley

Chicago Tribune | Carlos Sadovi | Posted 10.29.2008 | Chicago


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...

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

Michael Gene Sullivan | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics


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...