Badge Abuse

Tomo News.net May 29, 2014 It looks as if Key West police killed a Michigan retiree during a traffic stop last November and then staged a coverup by falsifying a police report. According to the report, Charles Eimers, 61, pulled away from a traffic stop by the Pizza Hut on …

RT.com   A federal appeals court has ruled that Americans have the right to videotape police officers in public, thereby allowing a court case brought against New Hampshire police to progress. Carla Gericke was arrested in 2010 for videotaping members of the Weare Police Department who pulled over her friend …

The Free Thought Project John Vibes May 29, 2014   A Florida police officer recently resigned from his post at a high school, after someone allegedly recorded him masturbating while in his office. The video was released anonymously to the local media, who has been questioning both the police department …

“We look to officers to serve and protect us, not put us in uncomfortable situations and abusing their power to make us do things that we really don’t want to do.” May 29, 2014 Thomas Tewell exhibits certain vulgar traits that manifest themselves into holding ‘power’ over women to try …

May 29, 2014 This act of kindness by these two San Diego Police officers is obviously an attempt to improve public relations. But that is a good thing, public relations need some serious improvement. Videos of the police have become disturbingly graphic and numerous over the last couple of decades …

May 28, 2014 Officer Naaman Adcock, of the Fort Smith Police Department, was arrested and placed on paid administrative leave Tuesday. Sequoyah County deputies said he fired a gun inside his home and held a gun to a 5-year-old’s head. Adcock is facing charges of suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, …

Motorist Sues After Officer Takes Forced Urine Sample Cops use catheter in invasive procedure against Indiana motorist whose blood alcohol level was below the legal limit Image Credits: Public domain by thenewspaper.com | May 28, 2014 A motorist whose blood alcohol level was below the legal limit earlier this month …

The Free Thought Project Matt Agorist May 28, 2014 A Tusla Public Schools Police Officer is on paid vacation after he fired his pistol at two teens he found “messing around.” It happened over the weekend at Eliot Elementary School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The overzealous cop apparently felt that his …

“I can’t take it no more, I’m sorry.”   The Free Thought Project John Vibes May 28, 2014   In 2012, a 50 year old mentally ill prison inmate named Darren Rainey was killed by guards in a Florida prison when they held him under a scalding hot shower. “I can’t …

Absurdity is a common trait of bureaucracies. But nothing says “we have no clue about the laws we pass” more than state requirements for law enforcement training.  Police are given the trust of the municipalities in which they ‘serve’ to uphold the rule of law. They are given a gun and …