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Corrupt sheriff gets taken down by a 20-year-old NYPD war on Blacks? Minnesota Cops Smoke-up Occupy Protesters, Then Lie Illinois Gets With the Times 9 Police Departments With Corrupt Pasts
 

Corrupt sheriff gets taken down by a 20-year-old

This post was submitted by a CopBlock.org visitor who choose to remain anonymous. S/he did leave some words of encouragement: “Keep up the good work of exposing corrupt cops. G-d willing America will remain the home of the Free and the Brave.” If we each stop being scared and stand on our conscience, the institutionalized [...]

NYPD war on Blacks?

This information comes to CopBlock.org via an individual who goes by “Brutalized by Washington DC Police Department”   Why does the New York City police department have such a history of killing unarmed Blacks. Sean Bell, Amadou Diallo and Eleanor Bumpurs are just three. Now come the tragic killing of Ramarley Graham in his own [...]

Minnesota Cops Smoke-up Occupy Protesters, Then Lie

A story that demonstrates double-standards claimed by those with badges submitted by “Accountability.” As s/he noted, “There is are laws…one for police and one for you.” That view will change only when each of us sees that man-made legislation does not equal law. Note how, when an individual officer does wrong and is called-out for [...]

Illinois Gets With the Times – Lifts Threat of Jail for Filming Police

Last week a judge for the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago said that eavesdropping legislation, long used by police and their allies to target those who attempted to document their actions, “likely violates” the First Amendment and ordered that authorities be banned from enforcing it. As Harvey Grossman, legal director of the ACLU [...]

9 Police Departments With Corrupt Pasts

Guest post from Hazel with Onlineclasses.org: If you want to learn more about the history of your city, explore the history of corruption within the city’s police department. Police corruption, which can include kickbacks, shakedowns, and protection of or even direct participation in illegal activities, has been around since the creation of the country’s first [...]

PoliceOne.com full of bigot cops

20 May 2012

This post from Lakewood outlines just a bit of the collectivist mentality (ascribing characteristics to individuals based on something beyond their control, such as the place of their birth, their skin color, or their gender) communicated in comments by some who claim to be integrous. Are you surprised? After all, the very institution for which [...]

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Dealing with Aircraft Issuing Speeding Tickets

20 May 2012

swiftfoxmark2 shares some insight he gleaned from his bud about how to handle a ransom threat from an airplane speed-trap. – Pete A coworker who I ride with on occasion related to me a story where he received a speeding ticket that was enforced via aircraft. Basically, he was driving on the interstate at 4 [...]

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Proven Guilty Never Innocent

20 May 2012

This post was sent by someone harassed by Patrick Fitzgerald, who works for the Orchard Park (NY) PD. Feel free after reading to give Fitzerald a ring to inquire about his actions. Just one comment about the authors write-up: per the “I HATE COPS” statement – why not focus instead on the bad idea (external [...]

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Stone County Missouri Sheriff Beat Innocent citizens

20 May 2012

This post comes to us from an individual concerned with the actions of employees of the Stone County, MO Sheriff’s Department on May 5th, 2012. If, after watching the video and thinking about the situation, you want to share some thoughts with those people depicted on the video, please do. – Pete 110 South Maple [...]

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Police Shootings Will Begin To Be Watched More Closely

19 May 2012

The write-up below comes to us from Jack Slade. I can appreciate his sentiment but differ in the solution advocated. Jack points-out the lower standards for police today and the lack of transparency with which they operate.  Both exist only due to perverse incentives, a direct consequence that stems from many people, including Jack, continuing [...]

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Thomas Keener shoots man in face and gets paid vacation

19 May 2012

Thanks to Pilar Oceana for putting this incident on our radar via CopBlock.org/submit What do we know? That, after a short foot chase Luis Armando Contrera was shot in the face by Thomas Keener, employed by the Napa Police Department. Contrera was left in a coma while Keener is on a paid vacation (aka “administrative [...]

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Out of the Mouths of Babes!

19 May 2012

“Out of the mouths of babes!” – so commented Robert Blum to a statement left by Valerie Rumer about her son’s exchange in class with a man who wears a badge. Brad Spangler commented, “Somebody PLEASE send that kid a t-shirt or something!” I contacted Valerie’s son Taj and did just that. Valerie later posted: The [...]

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This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories

18 May 2012

We inadvertently missed a week last week, but the corrupt cops didn’t. Let’s get to it: In Hanford, California, a Hanford police officer was arrested May 3on drug charges. Officer Ernesto Servin, 30, was arrested when he arrived for work at the police department and police found Oxycontin, methamphetamine, and marijuana in his car. Authorities suspect [...]

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