Badge Abuse

The increase in police brutality in this country is a frightening reality. In the last decade alone the number of  people murdered by police has reached 5,000. The number of soldiers killed since the inception of the Iraq war, 4489. What went wrong? In the 1970’s SWAT teams were estimated …

Welcome Back, Killer William Norman Grigg LewRockwell.com (With apologies to John Sebastian) Welcome back — your badge was your ticket out…. Erick Gelhaus, the Sonoma County, California Sheriff’s Deputy who gunned down 13-year-old Andy Lopez on October 22, has returned to “duty.” Gelhaus and an unidentified deputy spotted Lopez walking …

‘If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.’ -George Orwell   TomDispatch.com By Chase Madar If all you’ve got is a hammer, then everything starts to look like a nail. And if police and prosecutors are your only tool, sooner or …

The war on drugs has reached a new low. 22 students at one high school alone, most of which were special needs students, were targeted in a highly disreputable ‘sting’ operation. Children that have a hard time making friends because of their special needs, are easy prey for cops trying …

Another tragic police shooting happened last week in San Antonio. A 23 year old college student and prior valedictorian, Cameron Redus, was killed by a University of the Incarnate police officer Thursday night. Redus was pulled over for allegedly speeding when the situation escalated into the officer firing multiple shots …

A good Samaritan with a camera helped in catching an off-duty Detroit Police Officer and his former DPD accomplice, who were involved in a pistol-whipping and robbery outside a Citgo gas station. It was originally thought that the men conducting the robbery were impersonating police officers. Then, according to DPD Chief …

“You wanna grow up and be a man, look at me like a f****** man….You want to act like a bunch of hellions and she can’t f****** focus on what she’s doing…You want to act like crazy a**holes, do it at home!” screams Officer John Gurrieri to a bus full …

New York Times  By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.  An unarmed, emotionally disturbed man shot at by the police as he was lurching around traffic near Times Square in September has been charged with assault, on the theory that he was responsible for bullet wounds suffered by two bystanders, according to …

“we’re gonna bust in your door with a battering ram, we’re gonna shoot and kill your dogs…… and then we’re going to ransack your house”   According to Fox 4 KC,  A Kansas City man says he’s been terrified since an encounter with police on Monday evening. He says officers …

Almost as if he has a camera to look into the future, Orson Welles discusses the invasion of privacy by the police state and the authorities at home and abroad. Had he said these things in this day and age, he may very well be sitting in Guantanamo Bay right now. Originally …