A Metro Atlanta police officer is accused of being out of control and assaulting the citizens he was sworn to serve and protect. CBS Atlanta News has obtained more than 500 pages of internal affairs complaints lodged against Clayton County
The family of 30-year-old Eric Wells, the man who was killed in a crash involving IMPD Officer David Bisard, said they are angry to learn the DUI charges against the cop will be dropped.
No drugs. No guns. No dogfighting.
The 40 officers on the scene — from the Chicago Police Department Animal Crimes Unit, two SWAT teams and the Cook County Sheriff's Department — left.
The raid was over.
For the Harris family, however, the s
Police in Georgia are under investigation after grabbing a man’s genitals, then tasing and choking him when he tried to pull the cop’s hand away from his genitals.
The only reason the incident is even under investigation is because it was caught o
Another video has emerged showing a white-shirted New York City police supervisor punching a citizen during the Occupy Wall Street protests.
The video doesn't capture much before the incident but if you slow it down and watch it frame by frame, it
Capitol Police were not amused by tweets and an article written by the satirical newspaper The Onion falsely reporting that members of Congress had taken a group of schoolchildren hostage.
Today we received unconfirmed reports that over one hundred blue collar police refused to come into work in solidarity with our movement. These numbers will grow. We are the 99 percent. You will not silence us.
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced this afternoon that her office has filed charges against former Romulus Police Chief Michael St. Andre, his wife Sandra Vlaz-St. Andre, and five Romulus detectives (Det. Sargent Richard Balzer, Det. Richar
nleashing pepper spray on non-violent protesters as well as fellow officers at the ongoing Occupy Wall Street demonstrations.
Bologna, who was identified as the cop who pepper sprayed a pair of women who were already detained on Saturday, apparent
ew York City police officer Mark DeSimone began experiencing “ill effects from the aftermath of 9/11” in 2003, which prompted him to begin participating in triathlons as a way to combat these repercussions.
But he doesn’t appear to have fully reco
North Miami Beach police are investigating a comment submitted to a local blog that encouraged criminals to go after two well-known citizen activists. The threat was posted using a police department computer.
Veteran reporter Lawrence O'Donnell of MSNBC delivered harsh words against the New York City Police Department for arresting hundreds of people without just cause. He especially berated them for arresting a man with a video camera.
Activists have identified the senior New York Police Department officer who allegedly pepper-sprayed young women at the "Occupy Wall Street" protests, and it's not the first time he has been accused of civil rights abuses.
The judge who dismissed Michael Allison’s case last week won’t have the final word.
An appeal by prosecutors is likely in the works, Crawford County State’s Attorney Tom Wiseman said Wednesday.
On Sept. 15, Second Illinois Judicial Circuit Judg
Finally it claimed that even if it could search for videos, the law prevents it from releasing videos less than three years old (this despite the fact that the department deletes videos that are older than three years).
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York police can shoot down an airplane if needed, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told the CBS News program "60 Minutes."
"In an extreme situation, we would have some means to take down a plane," Kelly said on Sunday night's
County sheriffs in Wyoming are insisting that all federal law enforcement officers and personnel from federal regulatory agencies must clear all their activities in a Wyoming county with the Sheriff's Office. Speaking at a press conference following
A woman testifies against Tulsa cops in a corruption case, and is expected to testify in her family’s related civil suit against the city. In the weeks after the criminal trial, police get warrants on outstanding traffic violations, all misdemeanors,
A disabled Atlanta woman says she was sitting outside and waiting for the ice cream man when a cop showed up and ordered her to move. When she refused—because she wasn't in anyone's way, or doing anything wrong—the cop allegedly manhandled her and ca
Exasperated citizens complained to the police only to be treated with a mixture of amusement and impatient annoyance. Mounting hostility against Lebedev and his underlings prompted the gangster to withdraw – but only to gather reinforcements.
Allison, who I first wrote about here, was facing up to 75 years in prison for recording public officials with a digital recorder. Those charges have been dismissed.
With his glaring glass eye and imposing presence, Fullerton Police Officer Jay Cicinelli walked up to Kelly Thomas after he had already been savagely beaten and dropped his knee on him.
Mr. Fuddlesticks, the pseudonymous creator of YouTube cartoons mocking the Renton police department, no longer faces a "cyberstalking" investigation. Judge Cayce had approved a search warrant demanding information about Mr. Fuddlesticks from Google,
On Tuesday, a panel of civil service hearing officers ordered that two officers who were fired after a highly-publicized beating in April 2009 in LoDo be reinstated to their jobs with back pay, 9Wants to Know has learned from city officials. Denver's
Never mind that the police lied about this guy ramming their cars, which they claim was their excuse to shoot him. Never mind that video evidence shows a police truck smashing the man’s car into police cars, strongly suggesting the cops actually cre
A Massachusetts man is facing five years in prison after secretly recording an argument between himself and a police officer who had pulled him over for a traffic infraction. At some point during his conversation with officers at the police station,
it’s a little discomforting when he hear the Long Beach (California) Police Chief acknowledging that his officers are trained to detain photographers who are taking pictures “with no apparent esthetic value,” according to the Long Beach Post.
But
Michael Kennedy is Chief of Police in tiny Sunriver, Oregon, an unincorporated resort village in the Beaver State's Deschutes County. Kennedy insists that his police force has been terrorized for years by a marauder named Robert Foster.
“He break
A former police officer, cleared of rape charges but convicted of official misconduct, was sentenced on Monday to one year in prison for repeatedly returning to the apartment of a drunken woman while on duty.