Badge Abuse

April 2, 2014. New radar guns now used by Jackson TN Police allow an officer to issue a ticket from 1,000 feet away. Department leaders said it has also encouraged officers who are running radar to work in disguise. “They’re talking about having officers blend in, put on a construction …

April 2, 2014 Deputy Micah McNinch pulled over Wayne Ables after 2 a.m. as he raced his infirmed mother to a hospital just a mile from the site of the stop. McNinch pulled Ables over for expired tags and kept the pair there while an ambulance and fire truck were …

“Ma’am do I need to taze you to get you out of your car?” “Do I need to cut you out of your seatbelt to get you out of your car?” On a backcountry road, Clarisa Christiansen was threatened with a taser and knife by Border Patrol agents while her …

All too often people that know their rights are ridiculed and looked down upon by the jackboot thugs. In a more accountable world all cops would act exactly like this and exposing police brutality would be a thing of the past. However the state is not and never will be …

20 years ago, after the Rodney King beating, Congress directed the Attorney General to track excessive use of force and provide an annual report on it. Since then, no report has ever been issued, no government official has ever tracked it, and there is no national database. There are private …

Zero tolerance program slammed as attack on property rights Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com April 1, 2014 Authorities in Long Island have launched a crackdown on homeowners who rent their house out to tenants who have not been registered under a “zero tolerance” program that will see police conduct home inspections …

March 31, 2014 Ronald Jones, a black man, was walking down the street when Officer Matthew Antkowiak of the Dallas PD, drove by him responding to a call about two white men who were reported fighting downtown. Even though Officer Antkowiak was looking for two white men, he felt it …

Hundreds if not thousands of peaceful protesters took to the streets Saturday in Albuquerque, to decry the recent murders by APD. According to the AP, the Albuquerque mayor said late Sunday that a more than 10-hour protest over recent police shootings has turned from peaceful into “mayhem,” as officers in …

March 31, 2014 Tuscon, AZ — College kids, who’d rather protest the outcome of a basketball game than cops murdering people, got a slap in the face of what the police state looks like Saturday night in Tuscon, AZ. As Wisconsin fans celebrated in the streets in Madison, Arizona fans …

A good Samaritan was holding up a sign to warn the unsuspecting drivers that there is a speed trap ahead. Of course a cop tries to shut him down, but this guy was not having any of it. “Am I being detained? Am I free to go?” These words are …