When Therman Brown accused Elizabeth police of pistol-whipping him after an arrest in 2005, the city's internal affairs unit concluded the incident "didn't happen." When the man’s attorneys made the same accusations in federal court, a jury concluded it did and this  …

A father is accusing a Chicago Police Lieutenant of dropping his 4-month-old baby boy after police burst into a neighborhood restaurant to investigate reports of shots fired in the area.

Mike Laux, a Chicago lawyer, says he'll file a promised civil rights lawsuit over the fatal shooting Dec. 9 of Eugene Ellison by off-duty Little Rock police working as security guards at his apartment complex.

A 21-year-old man died after a Fort Myers police officer shot him in the back at point-blank range while he lay on the ground, a witness said she told investigators Friday.  Sherita Jackson, who lives at the apartment complex where Starling Javier died, said she told Florid …

Hacker Group Names Family of Coward Cop That Pepper-sprayed Crowd

"NYPD Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna, who indiscriminately pepper-sprayed demonstrators in NYC, then walked away like the coward he is......

A federal jury found today that Eureka police officers used excessive force in a $4.5 million verdict to the family of Martin Frederick Cotton II, who died in police custody in 2007. Cotton, 26, died Aug.

Des Moines City Council members on Monday will be asked to approve a $500,000 settlement to end a lawsuit filed by two people who alleged they were assaulted by police during a 2008 traffic stop. The lawsuit was filed in federal court more than two years ago based on claims of e …

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A man who took a photo of a Chicago Police officer driving while holding and dragging a man outside of his squad car last December was beaten by the officer, according to a federal lawsuit filed Friday. Brad Williams was standing on the front porch of his home when he saw the dri …

The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department has been wracked in recent months by news of arrested officers, accusations of police brutality and a perceived schism between leadership and the rank and file. The department is trying to change its officers' behavior with a new tr …

An attorney for Matthew Lawson, 20, filed a $1 million suit on Tuesday, accusing officers Curtis Schock, Steve Ricker and Paul Vardakis of shocking Lawson with a Taser, sending a K-9 to attack and bite him, and punching and kicking his body, causing him to lose a tooth. Lawson wa …

Now Retired Police Chief Richard Pierce was forced to retire after an investigation into his handling of an "excessive force" case involving his son. The elder Pierce's handling of that investigation, which began last summer after a $400,000 claim was filed against the city and f …

In what legal experts are calling a rampant abuse of power, police have taken the first steps towards filing criminal charges against the creator, claiming their creator violated the Washington State cyberstalking statute "RCW 9.61.260."  A local judge at the Super …

There are many different ways you can interpret a video posted on YouTube, showing a police officer kicking a man on the ground. From the view of the police officers, they were using a move they are trained to use when a person is not being compliant, which they say is what was h …

Settling misconduct claims doubled in cost during the first three years of Minneapolis Police Chief Tim Dolan's (right) leadership. This year, after a major jury award for the family of a mentally ill man slain by police, the city has paid out $3.3 million for a dozen claims that …

Police brutality takes many forms around the country on a regular basis, particularly in poor and minority neighborhoods.

Tyre Davis, 17, was leaving the 46th NYPD Precinct in the Bronx NY after being given a summons for disorderly conduct when he mouthed off to the cops standing outside the stationhouse, so they beat him up. Officers Joseph Murphy, 26, and Jose Ocasio, 28, kicked and punched & …

Passaic New Jersey Mayor Alex Blanco and Police Chief Richard Diaz asked community leaders Friday for their help in calming tensions that are running high across the city in the wake of Friday's acquittal of Passaic Police Officer Joseph Rios III for assa …

In the last 10 days, a State CO and the mother of a man who died after a struggle with police have filed suits accusing officers of using excessive force. An on-duty Cleveland officer shot and killed a man while investigating a suspected burglary reported by an off-duty offi …

Passaic NJ Police Officer Joseph Rios III broke down in tears as Superior Court Judge Donald J. Volkert Jr.

A lack of DNA evidence seems to have been the deciding factor for jurors in the trial of two NYPD officers accused a raping a young woman in her East Village apartment in 2008. DNA info tracked down two women who served on the jury, and their comments definite …

Thsi story has an important update regarding comments of the Jurors. A jury acquitted two New York police officers on Thursday of charges that they raped a drunken woman after helping her into her apartment while on patrol. The woman had described snippets of a harrowing night in …

Rowan County Sheriff Kevin Auten has fired a deputy who was a member of the department's Special Response Team. But neither Auten nor the county's attorney will say why the deputy was fired.

A Lee County (Fla) Sheriff's deputy is off the job – accused of using unnecessary force and then lying about it.

Police misconduct is a broad term describing any actions by the police that exceed the level of authority and power entrusted in them by the public and their office. Many acts of police misconduct are illegal.