Photo of naked woman in prostitute bust triggers rageSource: The Sydney Morning Herald
A photo showing a plainclothes policeman pulling a naked woman by the hair during a prostitution bust in central China has caused outrage on the internet, where it has been widely circulated.
Corrupt former St. Louis cop gets year in jailSource: The St Louis Post Dispatch
A former St. Louis police officer who admitted stealing cash, planting drugs, charging an innocent man and lying to cover it up was sentenced Friday to a year and a day in federal prison.
Portland ordered to pay $175,000 to three men in false arrestSource: OregonLive.com
A Multnomah County jury Monday ordered the city of Portland to pay three men a total of $175,000 for a 2007 encounter with police at a downtown parking garage in which the men accused officers of battery, assault and false arrest.
The myth of church as a sanctuarySource: austinweeklynews.com
It is easy to see how someone can be led to believe that the church is a sanctuary. Many of us have fresh memories of watching Elvira Arellano flaunt her illegal status as she took refuge in a storefront church and dared law enforcement to enter the church to arrest her.
Police known as 'Booty Boys' to go to trial in September Source: News Impact - MLive.com
Allen Hopkins is one of a dozen Detroit men who claims Sgt. Michael Osman and Office Michael Parish — known in parts of southwest Detroit as the Booty Boys — took stop-and-frisk searches too far in 2006.
Court rips San Carlos cops who broke into homeSource: The San Francisco Chronicle
Police in San Carlos who heard that a man had been in a minor traffic accident and may have been drinking can't justify charging into his home with guns drawn by claiming they feared he was in a diabetic coma, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
Vegas Doctor On Emergency Call Held at Gunpoint by "Law" OfficerSource: lasvegasnow.com
Dr. Ziworitin says he was rushing to UMC early Monday morning when an officer pulled him over near Rancho and Alta, "I may have briefly made a stop, and right there pulled my ID card which boldly says UMC and I said, 'I am a physician going to the hospital.'"
[Video] Cops taser son as father helplessly drownsSource: YouTube
Video of an article recently seeded, Police Tasers Son who Tries Rescuing Drowning Father, where a cop tasers a son as his father is carried out to sea. A citizen caught the incident on video.
Police Taser Son who Tries to Rescue Drowning Father Source:
54-year-old Maurizio Biasini went to a Mendocino Beach called Portuguese Beach with his two twin sons, Dario and Andriano Biasini, and fell into the water. The police and fire department refused to go into the choppy water as the father was swept further and further out to sea.
Exclusionary Rule Takes a Hit? Rewarding Police MisconductSource: The New York Times
The 5-to-4 decision revealed competing conceptions of the exclusionary rule, which requires the suppression of some evidence obtained through police misconduct, and suggested that the court's commitment to the rule was fragile.
The Railroading of Derrick FosterSource: The Agitator
Former Ohio State football player Derrick Foster is expected to plead guilty to felony charges in connection with shooting two Columbus police officers...Foster had no prior criminal record, and in fact had an exemplary employment record as a code inspector for the city of Columb …
Denver to settle with arrested women - The Denver PostSource: The Denver Post
Sadly little or nothing will happen to these overzealous officers who acted in such an abusive manor. Many reader will say to themselves reading this article that these are just a couple of bad seeds. I do not believe this at all!