Earlier this week, it was announced that after a two year long drug sting involving the FBI a total of fourteen members of law enforcement have been charged with drug crimes, including eleven within the state of North Carolina. According to WRAL-TV, all of the arrestees from North Carolina have confessed since being arrested. It […]
Police Lineups, False Identifications, And Wrongful Convictions
The following post was shared with the CopBlock Network anonymously, via the CopBlock.org Submissions Page. It was originally published at the Pacific Standard by Sue Russell in September 2012 and reposted at Salon.com. Why Police Lineups Can’t Be Trusted The single biggest cause of wrongful convictions is mistaken eyewitness identification. Is there a better way? […]
NPW16 Good Cop of the Day: Barron Morgan
This is the third article in a series for National Police Week Our second Good Cop of the Day is Officer Barron Morgan from Louisville, Kentucky. In 2012, when he was a narcotics detective with 18 years of service with the Louisville Metro Police Department, Officer Morgan heard a suspect confess to a murder committed […]
NYPD Costs Taxpayers Over $66 Million Dollars After Six People Wrongfully Imprisoned For Murder
Four men and one woman have accepted a settlement offer after being released for a 1995 murder they didn’t commit. Each of them had served 18 years in prison due to “unethical tactics” by NYPD detectives, including coaching witnesses, breaking the rules for photo lineups, and withholding video evidence that would have contradicted a major […]
Officer Darren Wilson’s Confession
On November 25th 2014, Officer Darren Wilson did an hour long on camera interview with George Stephanopoulos where he actually confessed to the premeditated killing of Michael Brown, see the interview here. It is unbelievable though that nobody picked up on his admission. The online post-interview discussions are saturated with emotion, which seems to have […]
Appeals Court Upheld Conviction of Commander Burge Who Presided Over Torture of Suspects
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 […]
