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Misconduct

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Prisons

New Data Show Prison Staff Are Rarely Held Accountable for Sexual Misconduct

Prison staff were fired in less than half of substantiated incidents of sexual misconduct between 2016 and 2018, and only faced legal consequences in 6 percent of cases.

C.J. Ciaramella | 2.3.2023 1:08 PM

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Police Abuse

New York Repealed Its Police Secrecy Law Two Years Ago. Departments Are Still Trying To Hide Misconduct Files.

The New York Civil Liberties Union is fighting about a dozen different lawsuits against stonewalling police departments.

C.J. Ciaramella | 12.5.2022 1:20 PM

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Criminal Justice

Washington Town To Pay $1 Million to Family of Woman Who Died by Suicide in Jail After Being Harassed by Guard

That guard would later be convicted of sexually assaulting four other incarcerated women.

C.J. Ciaramella | 11.16.2022 12:57 PM

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Police

A Seattle Cop Gets Fired for Bad Tweets Instead of His Terrible Conduct

An officer used an anonymous account to lash out at police protesters (and a Reason post). He was uncovered and fired.

Scott Shackford | 10.6.2022 1:45 PM

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Andrew Cuomo

Cuomo Sexually Harassed 11 Women, Retaliated Against 1 Female Employee, According to A.G. Report

"There should be a zero tolerance policy when it comes to sexual harassment," Cuomo tweeted in 2013.

Liz Wolfe | 8.3.2021 3:26 PM

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Politics

Pandemic Rules Are Only for the Little People 

We're expected to suffer discomfort, economic pain, and emotional distress or else pay fines or serve jail time. Government officials, meanwhile, take offense when called out for violating the standards they created.

J.D. Tuccille | 11.28.2020 6:00 AM

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Body Cameras

Release Body Cam Footage

With the right freedom of information and use policies, wearable cameras could still be a powerful weapon to increase transparency.

Alec Ward | 9.20.2020 7:00 AM

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Public Unions

Bust the Police Unions

They're a consistent force of organized resistance to calmer, safer, less aggressive policing.

Peter Suderman | 9.6.2020 7:00 AM

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Qualified Immunity

Abolish Qualified Immunity

This court-invented doctrine shields bad cops from civil liability.

Damon Root | 9.5.2020 6:00 AM

Walter Ogrod

Death Penalty

After Nearly 30 Years, Pennsylvania's Walter Ogrod is Released From Death Row

False testimony and prosecutorial misconduct put Walter Ogrod on death row.

Zuri Davis | 6.5.2020 4:00 PM

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Title IX

What You Need to Know About the New Title IX Regulations

All the important highlights from the 2,033-page document released by the Department of Education.

Samantha Harris | 5.7.2020 9:58 AM

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Police Abuse

Colorado Prosecutor Is 'Incredibly Frustrated' Over Failure To Investigate a Cop for Driving Drunk

District Attorney George Brauchler: "Bottom line is if one of us had been in that car and not officer Nate Meier, you ask me if I think it would have been treated differently, I do."

Zuri Davis | 2.9.2020 9:40 AM

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Misconduct

A Memphis Cop Will Get $3,600 a Month, Even After Having Sex With a Suspect in a Murder Case

He gave her marijuana, too.

Zuri Davis | 1.16.2020 11:50 AM

Los Angeles Police Depatment

Police Abuse

A California Cop's Body Camera Captured Him Fondling a Dead Woman's Breasts

The officer turned his body camera off, but the incident was still recorded.

Zuri Davis | 12.4.2019 11:10 AM

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Corruption

The Department of Homeland Security Is a Mess of Misconduct and Ineptitude

Longstanding discipline problems at DHS provide a glimpse of what fans of bigger government on the right and left would inflict on us.

J.D. Tuccille | 9.10.2019 1:00 PM

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Prosecutors

Controversial Arizona Prosecutor Juan Martinez May Finally Get a Taste of Justice

Martinez faces allegations of courtroom shenanigans, leaking confidential information, and sexual harassment.

J.D. Tuccille | 4.8.2019 10:00 AM

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Michigan

A Detroit Cop Loses His Badge After Mocking a Black Woman on Social Media

Gary Steele made a woman with expired plates walk in below-freezing temperatures. Then he pulled his phone out.

Zuri Davis | 2.28.2019 2:15 PM

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Criminal Justice

The Chemists and the Cover-Up

Sloppy forensics, drug skimming, and prosecutorial misconduct forced Massachusetts to throw out 47,000 convictions.

Shawn Musgrave | 2.9.2019 6:00 AM

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