Reed Mideke"A Brooklyn man who repeatedly filed complaints about police officers parked on the sidewalk outside his local precinct station house – prompting a menacing call from an NYPD cop posing as a 311 operator – has received a $25,000 settlement"
NYPD officer John Madera was fined $500, ordered to pay $500 toward the settlement and docked 15 days vacation. NYPD officer Samantha Sturman was also order to pay $500 for a separate call
The fact that NYPD cops hand out "get out jail free" cards to their friends and family should be a major scandal that ends with everyone involved being fired and/or prosecuted. Instead, it's a long-standing practice and cops who ticket card holders are punished
Florida Man, cop edition: "A Florida law enforcement officer [Jesse Hernandez] shot at an unarmed and handcuffed man after mistaking the sound of a falling acorn for a gunshot … he and a sergeant who shot at unarmed suspect Marquis Jackson were cleared of any criminal wrongdoing, according to Sheriff Eric Aden" (they didn't hit him) https://wapo.st/3wfYTFp
Mississippi "goon squad" cop Hunter Elward (previously seen in https://mastodon.social/@reedmideke/110828889999813387) gets 20 years 🥳
TBH seems kinda light for an incident that included a botched mock-execution where he (non-fatally) shot the victim in the mouth but least he'll be off the streets for while
"While sedatives were mentioned as a cause or contributing factor in a dozen official death rulings, authorities often didn’t even investigate whether injections were appropriate" https://apnews.com/article/investigation-police-use-of-force-sedation-injections-demetrio-jackson-621909ba7491abc2af8ad2e33ba3415b
Dozens of deaths reveal risks of sedating people restrained by police
An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that the practice of giving sedatives to people detained by police has spread quietly across the nation over the last 15 years, built on questionable science and backed by police-aligned experts. The injections are given by medical personnel during police encounters. The investigation shows how a strategy intended to reduce violence and save lives has resulted in some avoidable deaths. While sedatives were mentioned as a cause or contributing factor in a dozen official death rulings, authorities often didn’t even investigate whether injections were appropriate in the 94 deaths identified by the AP over a decade. About half of the 94 who died were Black.
Small town Missouri cop Myron Woodson shoots non-aggressive stray pet dog, claiming he thought it was an "injured stray that needed to be put down", with his department later claiming "Believing the dog to be severely injured or infected with rabies, and as the officer feared being bitten and being infected with rabies, the SPD officer felt that his only option was to put the animal down"
https://wapo.st/3wCURYg
Fontana, CA cops torture man into falsely confessing to murdering his dad. They might have got away with it if the dad hadn't turned up alive, but he did so six years later city has to pay $900k compensation. Not reported whether cops face any consequences
Above case is Thomas Anthony Perez v. City of Fontana (5:19-cv-01623) and the cops primarily responsible were apparently Jeremy Hale, David Janusz and Robert Miller, who failed to get summary judgement on some allegations back in June 2023
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16115756/thomas-anthony-perez-v-city-of-fontana/#entry-94
I'm sure you'll be shocked to learn the racist, now convicted "Goon Squad" of Rankin County MS sheriff deputies had a racist group chat where they "joked" about brutalizing suspects with their colleagues (many of whom are still employed as cops) https://mississippitoday.org/2024/05/29/did-you-tase-him-in-the-face-inside-goon-squad-deputies-group-chat/
WaPo with a grim story on cops charged with assaulting minors. Would have been better if they compared the stats and sentencing outcomes with other populations, but pretty clear the cop impunity complex extends here too, like the story of Alec Veatch getting 14 days despite confessing and having his crimes recorded on video
JFC. Nothing to add here except ex-South Bend Indiana cop Timothy Barber and Judge Jeffrey Sanford are pieces of shit
Nashville TV station discovers Shawn Taylor, assistant police chief of Millersville, TN PD is deep into QAnon stuff, and fully supported by chief Bryan Morris
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/franklin-politics/al-gore-youre-a-piece-of-sh-t-meet-millersvilles-conspiracy-cop
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/franklin-politics/al-gore-youre-a-piece-of-sh-t-meet-millersvilles-conspiracy-cop
LASD (of deputy gangs fame) makes an appearance in the thread, with serving (at the time) deputy Steven Arthur Lankford, and ex-deputy Glen Louis Cozart joining brit and aussie goons Max Samuel Bennett Turbett and Matthew Phillip Hart to extort millions of dollars in a fake police raid
https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/ex-law-enforcement-and-former-military-officers-charged-alleged-sham-raid-extort-oc
https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/ex-law-enforcement-and-former-military-officers-charged-alleged-sham-raid-extort-oc
Ex-Law Enforcement and Former Military Officers Charged in Alleged Sham Raid to Extort O.C. Man at Behest of Chinese National
Four ex-law enforcement and military officers are scheduled to be arraigned today on a four-count superseding indictment that alleges they acted as a sham law enforcement team that entered an Irvine man’s home and threatened him and his family with violence and deportation unless he turned over nearly $37 million and signed away his rights in a business – worth tens of millions of dollars – that he shared with a wealthy Chinese national who secretly financed the bogus raid.
Alaska state troopers Jason Woodruff and Joseph Miller charged with misdemeanor assault for pepper spraying, tasing, siccing a dog on and beating (to the point of fracturing bones) a man because they mistook him for a cousin who had an outstanding warrant. After they realized they had the wrong guy, they also tried to charge him with assault, which the DA declined to prosecute
2 Alaska State Troopers charged with violently assaulting the wrong man in case of mistaken identity
The two troopers pepper-sprayed, beat, stunned and used a police dog on the wrong man, authorities said.
The troopers also managed to tase one of their colleagues, and get bitten by their own dog. Oh, and the cousin's warrant was for skipping out on a 10 day sentence for driving on a suspended license https://alaskapublic.org/2024/08/15/2-soldotna-troopers-charged-with-assault-over-may-arrest-in-kenai/
WaPo continues their grim series on cops sexually abusing kids, this time featuring former Richland County SC school resource officer Jamel Bradley, who after years of complaints involving over a dozen victims appears on the verge of getting an incredibly lenient plea deal of probation and no time on the sex offender registry
Former Richland County SC school resource officer Jamel Bradley got the probation deal but Judge Daniel Coble did order him to register as a sex offender… while characterizing Bradley's behavior (over nearly a decade, involving more than a dozen students, including a guilty plea for assault and battery and sexual battery involving two of them) as "a mistake" 😬
Civil asset forfeiture continues to be a a very thinly disguised license for cops to steal shit. In this case, Marion County Indiana Prosecutor’s Office taking cash that passes through the Indianapolis FedEx hub
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/2024/08/13/california-jewelry-business-sues-indiana-over-seized-cash-fedex-henry-minh-inc/74788610007/
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/2024/08/13/california-jewelry-business-sues-indiana-over-seized-cash-fedex-henry-minh-inc/74788610007/
NYPD cop Mathew Bianchi, who was retaliated against for ticketing people (including a friend of chief Jeffrey Maddrey) who showed police union issued get-out-of-jail-free cards gets at $175K settlement, with no one admitting wrongdoing https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/10/nyregion/matthew-bianchi-nypd-tickets-settlement.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Jk4.8w3r.kIAylXO37Po1&smid=url-share
(previously https://mastodon.social/@reedmideke/111767739058456263)
#NYPD "accountability"
1) Slow walk giving evidence to the Civilian Complaint Review Board
2) When CCRB finally finishes their investigation refers it back to NYPD for disciplinary action, close the case because there's "not enough time for NYPD to investigate before the statute of limitations expires"
https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-tossed-out-police-misconduct-discipline-cases-edward-caban
1) Slow walk giving evidence to the Civilian Complaint Review Board
2) When CCRB finally finishes their investigation refers it back to NYPD for disciplinary action, close the case because there's "not enough time for NYPD to investigate before the statute of limitations expires"
https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-tossed-out-police-misconduct-discipline-cases-edward-caban
The NYPD Is Tossing Out Hundreds of Misconduct Cases — Including Stop-and-Frisks — Without Even Looking at Them
The department has killed more than 400 cases of alleged misconduct this year that an oversight board had investigated and substantiated. It’s part of a lax attitude toward discipline under the current police commissioner, Edward Caban, critics say.
More #NYPD "accountability" - 'Under the new rules, a cop guilty of an “unlawful search of premises” now can get a punishment that is nothing more than additional “training.”'
https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/09/13/caban-watered-down-nypd-punishments-as-final-act/
https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/09/13/caban-watered-down-nypd-punishments-as-final-act/
Former Houston narc Gerald Goines found guilty of murder, after he lied to get a no-knock warrant for a raid that ended in the cops killing the subjects
"prosecutors presented testimony and evidence they said showed Goines lied to get a search warrant … Goines falsely claimed that an informant had bought heroin at the couple’s home from a man with a gun. Goines would later change his story to claim he had bought the drugs himself but authorities said that also was a lie"
Goines lawyers claimed it was the victims own fault they they got into a gun fight with people who broke into their house and shot their dog https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/former-houston-officer-found-guilty-murder-deaths-couple-drug-raid-rcna172748
Goines lawyers claimed it was the victims own fault they they got into a gun fight with people who broke into their house and shot their dog https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/former-houston-officer-found-guilty-murder-deaths-couple-drug-raid-rcna172748
"The probe into the drug raid also uncovered allegations of systemic corruption.
A dozen officers tied to the narcotics squad that carried out the raid, including Goines, were later indicted on other charges following a corruption probe. A judge in June dismissed charges against some of them"
I for one am *shocked* to find out there was systemic corruption in the narcotics squad!
LAPD narc Kenneth Franco decides a business must be a grow op because it uses a lot of electricity, conducts a SWAT raid, finds an MRI machine, gets gun stuck to MRI machine, hits MRI machine emergency stop, causes extensive damage to MRI machine, gets sued https://www.dailynews.com/2024/09/28/lapd-officer-lost-rifle-to-mri-device-during-bungled-raid-lawsuit-alleges/
"OFFICER FRANCO, therefore, concluded that the TARGET PREMISES was cultivating cannabis, disregarding the fact that it is a diagnostic facility utilizing an MRI machine, X-ray machine, and other heavy medical equipment—unlike the surrounding businesses selling flowers, chocolates, and childrens’ merchandise, none of which would require significant power usage"
Docket https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69172475/noho-diagnostic-center-inc-v-city-of-los-angeles/
And in case you were wondering whether anyone is trying to #FOIA any footage that may exist of Officer Franco getting his gun stuck to the MRI https://www.muckrock.com/foi/los-angeles-91/noho-diagnostic-center-173817/
LASD (of deputy gangs fame) makes another appearance in the thread, via @briankrebs in this wild story "The FBI alleges LASD officers had on several previous occasions tried to kidnap and extort E.Z. at Iza’s behest" https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/09/crooked-cops-stolen-laptops-the-ghost-of-ugnazi/
Indictment says Iza (the person indicted) didn't pay taxes on any of his ill-gotten millions, but has to add a footnote for the year some apparently unrelated(?) fraudster filed a 1040 in his name
Also, WTF is happening with LASD deputies 1-3?
LA times says:
The U.S. attorney’s office declined to comment on whether the deputies … will be charged.
Several deputies, including a detective on the department’s notorious anti-gang unit, were recently relieved of duty in connection with a federal investigation, authorities said earlier this week. The Sheriff’s Department confirmed the move was linked to a probe “involving the U.S. Attorney’s Office.”
More from that story: "Tom Yu, an attorney representing one of the three current deputies mentioned in the complaint, told The Times that his client had not been arrested and stressed that he was only being investigated at the moment.
“I don’t think he did anything criminal,” Yu said"
Uh, I know you're paid to say that (at this point in the proceedings, at least), but good luck with, dude
“I don’t think he did anything criminal,” Yu said"
Uh, I know you're paid to say that (at this point in the proceedings, at least), but good luck with, dude
Cops get away with A LOT, but when the FBI has you identified in an indictment receiving hundreds of thousands in bribes for literal kidnapping, extortion and falsified warrants, "didn't do anything criminal" is gonna be a tall order. Though Deputy 3 is only identified receiving money, which they might plausibly argue was for a legitimate side gig as a security guard or something
While trying to dig up more on LASD deputies 1-3, I came across deputy Trevor James Kirk who allegedly didn't like a woman filming an arrest, and so threw her to the ground, choked and pepper sprayed her, and filed a misleading report about it
https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/los-angeles-county-sheriffs-deputy-charged-federal-civil-rights-violation-violent
https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/los-angeles-county-sheriffs-deputy-charged-federal-civil-rights-violation-violent
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Charged with Federal Civil Rights Violation for Violent Altercation with Woman
Today a federal grand jury returned an indictment against a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy alleging that he used excessive force when he assaulted and pepper-sprayed a woman during a shoplifting investigation outside a WinCo Foods in Lancaster last year.
QAnon-loving Millersville, TN assistant police chief Shawn Taylor makes another appearance*, with election-denying, failed AZ Secretary of State candidate Mark Finchem bragging Taylor (illegally) provided him FinCEN data https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/qanon-comes-to-main-street/we-already-have-the-receipts-election-denier-says-his-group-gained-access-to-u-s-banking-data
* previously https://mastodon.social/@reedmideke/112958201730428269
'We already have the receipts.' Election denier says his group gained access to U.S. banking data
An election denier says his group — working through the assistant police chief in tiny Millersville — gained access to a confidential federal database that tracks Americans’ banking transactions.
"Trenton [NJ] officers slammed a 64-year-old man face-first onto his own front porch and pepper-sprayed him after he refused to let them search his house without a warrant … The police searched the residence anyway and did not find any illicit drugs or weapons … the man died at a hospital 18 days later of respiratory failure caused by the confrontation"
"[Australian] police officer [Kristian White] who Tasered a 95-year-old woman with dementia symptoms at an Australian care home has been found guilty of her manslaughter … White - a senior constable - argued at trial that his use of force was reasonable and proportionate to the threat" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yp7g9r8j5o
Leaving aside SMUD sharing data without a warrant, one plaintiff writes "…two deputies from the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department arrived at about 9:00 pm. They didn’t have a warrant, so I said they couldn’t come in. One pushed open the door and pushed my wheelchair aside so that he could enter and search my home"
https://www.eff.org/cases/asian-american-liberation-network-v-smud-et-al
Asian American Liberation Network v. SMUD, et al.
Sacramento’s public-owned utility and police are searching entire zip codes’ worth of people’s private data without any legal authorization or a specific investigation, creating a mass surveillance program that invades the privacy of entire communities.The Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s (...
Also, some good old fashioned racism "In fulfilling Sacramento Police’s requests for data, SMUD has sometimes omitted homes in a predominantly white area. A Sacramento Police officer, in passing along a list of names provided by SMUD, removed non-Asian names from the list, leaving only Asian-sounding names for further attention"
https://www.eff.org/cases/asian-american-liberation-network-v-smud-et-al
Asian American Liberation Network v. SMUD, et al.
Sacramento’s public-owned utility and police are searching entire zip codes’ worth of people’s private data without any legal authorization or a specific investigation, creating a mass surveillance program that invades the privacy of entire communities.The Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s (...
"Deputy J.W. Berkshire told NGUYEN that SMUD had told the sheriff’s office that his home used too much electricity. Berkshire … demanded that if NGUYEN had nothing to hide, he should let the deputies search … When NGUYEN told Berkshire to get a warrant, the deputy put his hand over his holstered gun as if preparing to draw it. He also screamed at NGUYEN, called NGUYEN a liar, and stated that he would come back with a warrant to arrest NGUYEN" https://www.eff.org/document/asian-american-liberation-network-v-smud-amended-complaint
Former South Bend cop Timothy Barber decertified in Indiana two years after pleading guilty to sexually abusing a 16 year old. No doubt a coincidence the decertification process started shortly after WaPo's original reporting on the case
https://wapo.st/49IFV9N
Indiana decertifies ex-cop who sexually abused a teen. It took two years and a Post investigation.
The state took action against former South Bend officer Timothy Barber after a Post story about his abuse of a 16-year-old girl. He’d kept his certification, despite pleading guilty in 2022 and registering as a sex offender.
WaPo with a look back on two years of reporting cops sexually abusing minors: "on average, a law enforcement officer has been charged with a crime involving child sexual abuse twice a week, every week, for 18 years… Nearly 40 percent of convicted officers identified by The Post avoided prison sentences"
NY corrections officers manage to record themselves so blatantly beating an inmate to death that even the union isn't defending them https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2ldwe1ypywo
9th circuit: Sure, Grant County (OR) Sheriff Glenn Palmer and prosecutor Jim Carpenter obtaining a cell phone system image from an unrelated agency in a different state without a warrant and disseminating nudes found therein "presents a troubling example of the intrusion on Fourth Amendment rights that can occur with respect to highly sensitive cell phone data" but no punishment for anyone involved
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/no-warrant-or-crimes-but-oregon-womans-nudes-were-shared-after-illegal-phone-search/
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/no-warrant-or-crimes-but-oregon-womans-nudes-were-shared-after-illegal-phone-search/
This Texas Observer piece outing ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James J. Rodden as the person behind racist twitter account starts out with a lot of "yeah, that's a heck of a coincidence" stuff, and then… "During the January court hearing the Observer attended, Rodden repeatedly used his phone at moments that corresponded to times GlomarResponder made posts"
https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/
ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account
The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
Cullman County, Alabama grand jury finds the Hanceville PD should be "immediately abolished" because it's a "particular and ongoing threat to public safety," has a "rampant culture of corruption" and has "recently operated as more of a criminal enterprise than a law enforcement agency"
Details not entirely clear, but it seems among other things they were using the evidence room as a drug stash and one of their dispatchers died after OD'd on said stash
"30 LA County detention officers face charges over 'gladiator fights' among youth at juvenile hall" https://abc7.com/post/30-la-county-probation-officers-face-charges-gladiator-fights-among-youth-juvenile-hall/15974434/
Erie County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics and Intelligence Unit chief Daniel “D.J.” Granville "…hit three groups of parked cars in a one-mile stretch … but he faced no charges related to drunk driving and [nothing] indicates he was required to undergo field sobriety tests or blow into a breathalyzer. Instead … was ticketed for a moving violation: driving the wrong way down a one-way street … that ticket was later reduced to a jaywalking charge"
https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/investigations/2-investigates/erie-county-sheriffs-chief-hit-seven-cars-but-wasnt-charged-crime-buffalo-wny-charges/71-7ce720f6-f122-4bee-89c8-db00e4c07e77
https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/investigations/2-investigates/erie-county-sheriffs-chief-hit-seven-cars-but-wasnt-charged-crime-buffalo-wny-charges/71-7ce720f6-f122-4bee-89c8-db00e4c07e77
Uh… "[NYC mayor Eric Adams] has been so closely connected to the unit, former senior officials said, that at one point he had special access to a livestream of the team’s body-worn cameras" https://www.propublica.org/article/eric-adams-nypd-community-response-team-police-nyc-misconduct-transparency
Jefferson Parish Sheriff's deputy Julio Alvarado "saw Arnold, covered in dirt, walking down the street. Arnold told the deputy she was attacked by a group of boys who frequently bullied her. When Alvarado ordered her to stop, Arnold said she just wanted to go home and kept walking. That’s when the deputy jumped out of his vehicle, grabbed Arnold and slammed her into the sidewalk"
Internal investigation determined Alvarado’s actions were "both reasonable and acceptable"
Four Years After Cop Was Filmed Slamming Black Woman to the Ground, Louisiana Passes Accountability Law
Despite being caught in a 2021 video ripping out Shantel Arnold’s hair, sheriff’s Deputy Julio Alvarado failed to report the incident. A new law authored by Arnold’s attorney will mandate excessive-force reporting for all law enforcement agencies.
"Alvarado received an “approximately” 40-hour suspension for failing to file a written report" and after being sued, the Sheriff's office settled for $300k, "the third — and largest — settlement involving Alvarado"
Alvarado was previously demoted from sergeant to deputy for "patronizing a massage parlor that was being investigated for suspected prostitution" but as of March remained employed by the department.
Four Years After Cop Was Filmed Slamming Black Woman to the Ground, Louisiana Passes Accountability Law
Despite being caught in a 2021 video ripping out Shantel Arnold’s hair, sheriff’s Deputy Julio Alvarado failed to report the incident. A new law authored by Arnold’s attorney will mandate excessive-force reporting for all law enforcement agencies.
It was obvious the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office were lying from the start, but it's nice to have slam dunk written confirmation: "In documents created prior to the publication of our article, there is zero mention of concern about the woman’s safety. The records show that the police retroactively created a separate document about the Flock search a week after our article was published"
Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime
Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.
Two years later, the only apparent criminal fallout from that absurd raid on the Marion County Record in 2023* "Former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody probably committed a felony crime when he told a witness to delete text messages they exchanged before, during and after he led raids on a newspaper office and the publisher’s home… "
Judge orders ex-police chief who led raid on Kansas newspaper to stand trial for deleted texts • Kansas Reflector
Former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody probably committed a felony crime when he told a witness to delete text messages they exchanged before, during and after he led raids on a newspaper office and the publisher's home, a district judge ruled Wednesday.
"Newell took the stand and testified that Cody told her during a phone call to delete text messages between the two of them so that people wouldn’t get the wrong idea about whether they were romantically involved"
Judge orders ex-police chief who led raid on Kansas newspaper to stand trial for deleted texts • Kansas Reflector
Former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody probably committed a felony crime when he told a witness to delete text messages they exchanged before, during and after he led raids on a newspaper office and the publisher's home, a district judge ruled Wednesday.
Ex Sangamon County Illinois sheriff's deputy Sean Grayson found guilty of second-degree murder for shooting Sonya Massey, which he justified with the absurd claim of fear she was going to throw a pot of boiling water at him
https://apnews.com/article/sean-grayson-sonya-massey-trial-34a5cb31ad44c6243d17cc4f598a9d5c
Illinois deputy found guilty of murder in the shooting of Sonya Massey
An Illinois jury has convicted a sheriff’s deputy of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 to report a suspected prowler. The jury announced the verdict against Sean Grayson on Wednesday. Grayson arrived at Massey’s home in Springfield after she reported a prowler early on July 6, 2024. Massey was holding a pan of hot water and Grayson’s attorneys argued that he was afraid she would throw it at him. Grayson faces a sentence of four to 20 years in prison or probation when he is sentenced Jan. 29.
"Larry Bushart, 61, of Lexington, Tenn., had been locked up since Sept. 21 for posting a meme that quoted President Trump, saying "we have to get over it" in response to a shooting in Perry, Iowa" which Perry County Sheriff Nick Weems claimed was a threat of violence (actually, about Charlie Kirk). Charges dismissed after NewsChannel 5 "aired an interview with Weems in which he admitted that investigators knew that the meme was not about Perry County High School"
RE: https://social.freedom.press/@freedomofpress/115537727153605004
Marion County Record raid saga* costs the county another $3 million
https://mastodon.social/@freedomofpres[email protected]/115537727365751856
They didn't quite get an admission of wrongdoing but closer than most: "The Sheriff’s Office wishes to express its sincere regrets to Eric and Joan Meyer and Ruth and Ronald Herbel for its participation in the drafting and execution of the Marion Police Department’s search warrants on their homes and the Marion County Record. This likely would not have happened if established law had been reviewed and applied prior to the execution of the warrants"
Quelle surprise "Insurance covers most of those funds, but the county must pay Meyer $50,000" https://kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/marion-county-agrees-to-pay-out-3m-for-newspaper-raid-express-regret/
"… Paul Campo, worked for the D.E.A. for about 25 years, the indictment said, first as a special agent in New York and eventually rising to become a high-level official … Mr. Campo laundered about $750,000 for the cartel by converting cash into cryptocurrency, and agreed to launder far more — $12 million in all … He also provided a payment for about 220 kilograms of cocaine" - Perfectly on-brand narc
"The union doesn’t want discipline to derail an officer’s career and for years has made that a central point in its labor negotiations with the city" - Classic cop brain: Everyone else has to follow the law or face consequences, and also, how dare you suggest we should face consequences for our actions!
Larry Bushart (with help from FIRE*) sues Perry County (TN) Sheriff Nick Weems for holding him in jail for 37 days over a facebook meme
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/man-sues-cops-who-jailed-him-for-37-days-for-trolling-a-charlie-kirk-vigil/
Play Ball and Fight FascistsOK, did not expect that out of Alabama of all places.