Detroit Cop Shoots Family Dog in Front of 9-Year-Old
"She's not a vicious dog at all. … She's a sweetheart."
"She's not a vicious dog at all. … She's a sweetheart."
The officers won't be charged, but the DA thinks their actions were "alarming and irresponsible."
Police now have to get a judge's permission before they rummage through your bins.
"Children are being illegally taken from their home without judges' proper authority."
This is not the first time a tweet from the Sergeants Benevolent Association has courted controversy.
More than half of the 120 defendants in a notorious 2016 police raid were never even alleged to be gang members.
In contrast, police killed nearly 1,000 people last year.
Derek Williams told police that he couldn't breath while sitting in the back of a police car.
Police had wide authority to seize assets without having to prove a crime even happened, but now the state is tightening the rules.
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Thanks to a police union, Officer Darren Cachola has managed to stay on the force job despite a firing, brutality and abuse allegations, and a video of him punching his girlfriend.
The Metropolitan Police Department was in the middle of a legal battle with the family when the warrantless search was conducted.
The local police union promises to defy him.
"What started out as a clerical error magnified into a very regrettable and Kafkaesque mistake."
USA Today launches an important new tool for tracking officers who have been fired for misconduct.
It's fair to take the cops' account with a grain of salt.
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Ashley Foster was jailed and inspected by child protective services for a mistake beyond her control.
The cops were there to break up a fight, not start one.
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It looked as though he was trying to put the gun on the ground.
The Chattanooga Police Department is at the center of another excessive force lawsuit.
The ACLU wants the Supreme Court to revisit the notorious qualified immunity doctrine.
In a now-deleted Facebook post, Loudoun County deputies brag about a drug bust, get dragged, and likely don't learn any lessons.
Cops release edited video of the encounter.
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One doesn't need a predictive-policing program to realize that police officers who have been convicted of serious crimes ought not to be trusted with a badge.
Texas' law of parties is to blame.
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"Where is the accountability in the system?"
The FBI is still investigating, however.
When an aunt asked to see a search warrant, she says she was handcuffed.
The San Antonio Police Department tried to fire this officer for giving a crap sandwich to a homeless man. It was overruled.
The Elkhart Police Department has had several misconduct issues throughout the years.
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More than 30 organizations are reviewing thousands of newly released documents about bad cop behavior