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Cleveland police “punished” various officers with suspensions, demotions, and firings for a car chase last year involving five dozen cruisers, 137 rounds of ammunition fired, and the death of 2 unarmed people. A sergeant was fired, a captain and lieutenant were demoted, and nine other sergeants were suspended. More here.

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The 7th Circuit upheld the conviction of a police commander who “presided over an interrogation regime where suspects were suffocated with plastic bags, electrocuted until they lost consciousness, held down against radiators, and had loaded guns pointed at their heads during rounds of Russian roulette.” Jon Burge oversaw the Chicago Police Department’s Area 2 headquarters [...]

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Jeffrey Weinhaus was shot multiple times by Henry Folsom on September 11, 2012. Weinhaus was helivaced from the scene and later recovered. The incident was “investigated” by employees of the Missouri State Highway Patrol Troop C. Information has come to light that proves that Folsom has lied about key fact. See this post for all related [...]

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Judicial immunity has been covered here on Copblock from time to time. Perhaps the most notorious and flagrantly offensive case involving judicial immunity would be Stump v. Sparkman, wherein a judge conspired with a young girl’s mother to have her secretly sterilized. When she found out years later, after she was married, that she could [...]

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Repeatedly, police and their apologists insist that police are held accountable regularly, and in fact are held to a “higher” standard than ordinary people. This simply isn’t the case, according to the law (and don’t police and their supporters care about the law?) Below are several provisions of the California Government Code, which are relevant [...]

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Police and their supporters always talk about how policing is such a difficult and dangerous job. As with most things related to police, this attitude is derived from general misconception, ignorance, and a tendency of people to arbitrarily worship those in fancy uniforms. Year after year, policing fails to make the top ten list of [...]

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The system is stacked against you. Always. If you are ever arrested, you have lost, regardless of whether you have actually done anything wrong, or anything illegal. There is no “innocent until proven guilty” because by the very act of arrest, you are assumed guilty, and must pay bail in order to then procure a [...]

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In early July, a homeless, schizophrenic man named Kelly Thomas was beaten and tasered to death by police in Fullerton, California.

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