Posts tagged police corruption
Former Sheriff Arrested And Put In The Jail Named After Him
Nov 30th
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
Nov 1st
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
Oct 13th
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
Sep 20th
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
Aug 6th
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
Jun 8th
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”
Apr 13th
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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40 Bronx Cops Being Investigated For Taking Bribes To Erase Tickets
Apr 11th
A grand jury probe of an alleged Bronx ticket-fixing scheme focuses on as many as 40 cops, including delegates from the city’s largest police union, sources told the Daily News.
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Cop Admits To Letting Female Criminals Go If They Gave Him Oral
Mar 15th
A former DeKalb County Police officer has pleaded guilty to forcing two women to perform oral sex on him in exchange for his agreeing not to arrest them, the DeKalb District Attorney’s Office said.
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Police Sent On Manhunt After Cop Shoots Himself And Blames Thug
Jan 29th
LOS ANGELES – The report of a school police officer shot last week touched off one of the largest Los Angeles-area manhunts in recent memory and forced thousands of students to remain in their classrooms for hours as officers searched for the attacker.
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