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Cleveland police said on Wednesday that conveniently, they never reviewed the Independence file and changed their policies to include checking publicly available records for potential hires. Cleveland, Ohio – Last month, we reported that a police officer shot a young boy for playing in a park with a toy gun …

Instead of investigating the officers for their disgusting actions, police are investigating how the video got released.   Mamou, LA —  A disturbing video was leaked to the press Monday from a holding cell surveillance camera showing 2 police officers essentially torturing inmates. The anonymous person who released the video, …

Bakersfield, CA– In a tale we have heard repeated far too many times, 22-year-old Ramiro James Villegas, who went by the name James De La Rosa, was killed by jumpy police in Bakersfield after allegedly “reaching for his waistband” on November 13.  Just like Dillon Taylor who was executed in August …

Tabor City, North Carolina –  David Lawrence Wallace, Jr., a prison guard who worked at the Tabor Correctional Institution, was recently arrested for plotting to burglarize a facility that housed armored trucks. He had also reportedly planned to behead the owner of the business and his wife, so the robbery would …

Houston, Texas – Kenneth Caplan, a reserve deputy constable with Harris County Precinct 6 has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, after shooting a woman in the head during a fit of road rage. The officer was reportedly driving on the 610 Loop at Stella Link about two weeks ago, …

“Drop his f***** ass, drop his ass!!” one officer can be heard saying on the dashcam right before six cops put 23 bullets into a man who was lying on the ground. Martinsburg, Virginia – This week, the family of a Virginia man who was killed by police is filing for an appeal …

This story could be ripped straight from The Onion, but it is actually true. Cleveland, OH– Eight white Cleveland Police Department officers and one Hispanic officer are suing the city of Cleveland claiming that non-black officers are facing harsher discipline than black officers when they kill black people. The lawsuit was …

“I’m not consenting to this. That’s too much touching, I am not consenting to this. Take pictures! Don’t touch me in private areas” Los Angeles, CA– Not content with simply violating your right to protest, the LAPD has decided to go a step further and violate protesters bodies as well. …

Cleveland, Ohio – Earlier this week we reported that a police officer shot a young boy for playing in a park with a toy gun just seconds after exiting his vehicle. The video footage to surface after the incident showed absolutely no restraint on the part of Cleveland patrol officer Timothy …

America’s police departments have a dirty little secret. However, this sick and twisted pattern of abuse is becoming quite the large pile of dirt to keep sweeping under the rug. Sexual misconduct is the second highest of all complaints nationwide against police officers, representing 9.3 percent in 2010, according to …