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Photo of naked woman in prostitute bust triggers rage
Source: 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 jail
Source: 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 arrest
Source: 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.

New Jersey Judge Drops Charges Against Police Officer for Having Sex with Cows On the Grounds That They May Have Enjoyed It
Source: jonathanturley.org

New Jersey police officer Robert Melia Jr. will not face criminal charges for allegedly having sex with five calves under a perfectly bizarre ruling by Judge James J. Morley. We previously discussed the case, here.

The myth of church as a sanctuary
Source: 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.

NAACP Harnesses Cell Phone Power to Launch New High Tech "Rapid Report System" to Help Citizens Report Police Misconduct -- Part of Sweeping New Civil Rights Initiative on Crime and Safety
Source: naacp.org

An innovative national program to help fight crime in American cities and towns will be unveiled Monday, July 13th at the NAACP Centennial Convention in New York City.

Court rips San Carlos cops who broke into home
Source: 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.

Ogden police officer solicited and received oral sex from 17 yea-old girl, gets 90 days for sexual battery
Source: standard.net

OGDEN -- The once-honored former Ogden police officer Ken Hammond was sentenced Tuesday to 90 days in Weber County Jail for a sexual offense with a 17-year-old girl.

Video of vulgar cop mocking homicide victim appears on YouTube, so Police Dept investigates the poster, then threatens him
Source: The Agitator

So you have a police officer making inappropriate, insensitive comments about a murder victim and his mother in a video that eventually gets posted to YouTube.

Vegas Doctor On Emergency Call Held at Gunpoint by "Law" Officer
Source: 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.'"

Phoenix police raid home of blogger whose writing is highly critical of them
Source: carlosmiller.com

In what should send a frightening chill down the spine of every blogger, writer, journalist and First Amendment advocate in the United States, Phoenix police raided the home of a blogger who has been highly critical of the department.

Campus newspaper trashed by police after publishing mugshot of officer arrested for drug dealing - The Boston Globe
Source: The Boston Globe

Two MIT police officers, apparently unhappy with the student newspaper's coverage of a fellow officer's recent arrest for drug trafficking, did the only thing they could think of to block the bad news: They trashed it.

Midvale, Utah Police Department Fires Whistle-blower
Source: ksl.com

Guenon said, "I was approached by many officers who came out saying you know they're going to witch hunt you. They're going to come after you. You don't double-cross them."

Is the Supreme Court About to Kill Off the Exclusionary Rule?
Source: The New York Times

In 1957, the Cleveland police showed up at Dollree Mapp's home looking for a bombing suspect. Ms. Mapp would not let them in without a search warrant, but they entered anyway.

Cops Tase 54 Year Old Woman For Sitting In Wrong Seat At Football Game
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Wisconsin Police were caught on camera tasing a 54 year old woman and confining her to a wheel chair after she sat in the wrong seat at a football game in Madison. [...]

[Video] Cops taser son as father helplessly drowns
Source: 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
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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 Misconduct
Source: 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 Foster
Source: 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 …

Police Get The Wrong House In Galveston, Allegedly Assault 12-Year-Old Girl
Source: blogs.houstonpress.com

It was a little before 8 at night when the breaker went out at Emily Milburn's home in Galveston.

Denver to settle with arrested women - The Denver Post
Source: 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!

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