All Cops Are Bastards

Retired SFPD sergeant Kevin Mannix shot & killed his wife, retired deputy chief (& 1st SFPD woman SWAT officer) Ann Mannix & their 25 year old daughter Katie Mannix.

From a small crowd of protesters, the eighty-year-old is grabbed by two young Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers. Struggling to walk—Ball is blind in one eye and suffers from the effects of two heart attacks—he’s taken to a wall and slammed face first into the brick before being handcuffed. Shortly afterward, according to Ball, he’s dumped roughly into the back of a police car and sent to the station to be reprimanded. Everything happens in the space of a few minutes, turning an ordinary act of civic participation into a hellish ordeal.

Three counts accuse Moss of using his official position for personal gain. The indictments allege he used a fraudulent abandoned-title process to obtain ownership of a Buick Verano, BMW 330i and Kawasaki motorcycle.

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Seven federal appeals courts have held you have a First Amendment right to record police. All are still good law. So how do the people who film police keep losing?

A conditional discharge means Morla was found guilty of an offence but the court will not register a criminal conviction if she abides by the conditions of her 18-month probation, which includes 50 hours of community service and attending counselling.

A new Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study compared smartphone telematics with police reports for almost 17,000 crashes in Connecticut, Illinois, Ohio, and Texas. After excluding passive screen activity such as an untouched navigation display, the data still show a huge gap: phones detected active use before crashes far more often than police documented it.

New footage from February’s Town Hall protest has emerged showing NSW Police officers boasting about punching a protester.

A former Border Patrol agent pleaded guilty to two civil rights violations last week for demanding that women expose their breasts to be admitted into the United States, officials said.

Police in Albany used an image taken surveillance footage to try find a man who picked up money off the ground in a Walmart.

Harford County investigators said DNA evidence links a Baltimore police officer to an Edgewood rape while he was on duty.

tl;dr; Two little girls twisted a swing up, chain broke, police charged them

Historic opioid settlements were supposed to be a lifeline for underserved communities. But much of that money is flowing to law enforcement.

Two Arizona police officers have been charged with multiple felonies after being accused of punching a man and woman, restraining them and using a stun gun on them while they were still in the car.

A dead father in Maine and a chilling voicemail have turned one ICE shooting into a stark indictment of who America chooses to arm in its name.

One deputy sheriff has resigned, and another is under investigation after the violent takedown of a Black man accused of trespassing at a gas station in

As of March 2022, there are at least 18 known deputy gangs within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

The study’s authors, Jordan Grasso and Caro A. Mooney, found that out of 4.6 million pedestrian and vehicle stops reported by California police in 2023, 17,916 stops (less than 0.5%) involved people perceived as transgender or gender nonconforming. However, data showed that police searched 24% of people perceived as transgender, compared with 14% perceived as cisgender men, 8% perceived as cisgender women, and 11% perceived as gender nonconforming

His wife had been contemplating a separation and told him on the night of the altercation that she was leaving him. At Williams-Booth’s insistence, she always carried her firearm when she left the house. She was grabbing her laptop from the home office when he came in and blocked the only exit.

A Pasadena police sergeant has resigned from the department while he remained under an active internal investigation, according to the Pasadena Police Department.

Wheeler posted a $3,000 surety bond Sunday and has a status check hearing on the filing of the criminal complaint scheduled for Sept. 2.

Sheriff’s deputies in Michigan fired 27 shots at John Jenuwine, even though “he was not the guy that they were supposed to be chasing.”

Montreal police have launched an investigation into 16 officers who are accused of carrying out ‘co-ordinated’ racist and hateful acts against Black and Arab people during police stops.

Nathanial Richardson was being driven to the hospital for a hand injury in 2024 when his hat flew out the window, prompting the driver to pull over on the

Derik Shaw, a local resident, voiced concerns about the decision to confront the vehicle in the parking lot.

Brad Kellson is pinned to the ground when a police officer twice his size knees him five times.

The Honolulu Police Department is facing a lawsuit after a high-ranking officer allegedly took a screenshot of an internal message detailing a teen sex assault case and sent it to a friend.

Mr Rolfe, who is no longer with the force, was acquitted over the killing in a Supreme Court trial but the coroner found he held racist attitudes that may have influenced his actions against Mr Walker.