Posts tagged police corruption
Black Cop Shot 28 Times By White Officers Faces Prison Time
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In 2005, an African-American off-duty detective was shoot 28 times by four white Chicago police officers and lived to talk about it. But it is Howard Morgan, not the officers, who was convicted for attempted murder this past January
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Supreme Court Votes Jail Strip Searches Can Be Done To Everyone, No Matter How Small The Crime Is!
2Unpaid parking tickets? That’s a strip search. And no leash on your doggie? That’s a strip search too. It might sound weird, and a wee bit terrifying, but that’s the verdict out of the United States Supreme Court this week.
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Former Sheriff Arrested And Put In The Jail Named After Him
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Every civil servant wants to experience his or her legacy firsthand–but not the way that onetime Arapahoe Sheriff Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. has. Sullivan, a nationally renowned law enforcement leader, was arrested on drug charges and is now being detained in the Denver area jail that bears his name.
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Cop Says He Thought Sean Bell Was Trying To Run Him Over
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A second NYPD cop who fired his gun at Sean Bell and his friends testified today that he saw another officer raise his gun and thought the Queens man was trying to run them over.
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NYPD Cop Admits To Planting Drugs On Innocent People To Meet Arrest Quotas
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A former NYPD narcotics detective snared in a corruption scandal testified it was common practice to fabricate drug charges against innocent people to meet arrest quotas.
The bombshell testimony from Stephen Anderson is the first public account of the twisted culture behind the false arrests in the Brooklyn South and Queens narc squads, which led to the arrests of eight cops and a massive shakeup.
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Georgia Board Denies Clemency For Troy Davis
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ATLANTA – Georgia’s pardons board rejected a last-ditch clemency plea from death row inmate Troy Davis on Tuesday despite high-profile support from figures including the pope and a former FBI director for the claim that he was wrongly convicted of killing a police officer in 1989.
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Jury Convicts 5 Police Officers For Covering Up Katrina Murders
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NEW ORLEANS – A federal jury on Friday convicted five current or former police officers in the deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina.
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Crooked Cop Gets 20 Years In Prison For Robbing Drug Dealers To Pay Mortgage
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An NYPD cop who said he joined a violent robbery crew targeting drug dealers to pay his mortgage was slammed yesterday with 20 years in prison by an outraged judge.
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Officer Who Killed Black College Athlete Named “Officer Of The Year”
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – A police union has given its Officer of the Year award to the policeman who shot and killed a college football player during a disturbance in the New York suburbs.
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