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Here Is The Footage of Laquan McDonald's Shooting Death Chicago Police Didn't Want You to See
Brendan O'Connor · 11/24/15 06:53PMNYPD Is Still Arresting Plenty of People for Pot, Despite de Blasio's Promise
Andy Cush · 11/23/15 11:55AMJudge Rules City Must Release Dashcam Video of Chicago Teen Being Fatally Shot by Police
Brendan O'Connor · 11/19/15 09:47PMA video allegedly depicting a black teenager being shot and killed by a Chicago police officer last year will be released, The Guardian reports, after a Cook County judge ruled Thursday that it was not exempt from requests made under the state’s Freedom of Information Act, as city officials had previously claimed.
Police: Brooklyn Man Shot While Trying to Rob a Plainclothes Cop
Brendan O'Connor · 11/09/15 12:01AMTuscaloosa PD Investigating Video of Cop Apparently Beating and Tasering Alabama Student
Brendan O'Connor · 11/08/15 10:30PMOfficials: Missouri Man in Critical Condition Shot Himself in Face After Confrontation With Police
Brendan O'Connor · 10/28/15 06:42PMTwo Videos Show Officer Violently Slamming High School Girl to the Ground in Classroom [Updated]
Jordan Sargent · 10/26/15 04:52PMA video circulating on social media today shows a South Carolina school officer choking a student, slamming her to the ground and then dragging her across a classroom floor while attempting to place her under arrest.
Police Divers Find Gun Believed to Have Been Used to Kill New York City Cop
Brendan O'Connor · 10/25/15 06:07PMAlleged Gun-Toting Subway Masturbator Identified as Retired NYPD Cop
Jay Hathaway · 10/22/15 03:54PMEast Harlem Drug Dealer Accused of Fatally Shooting NYPD Officer
Brendan O'Connor · 10/21/15 06:00PMEven Police Chiefs Understand Mass Incarceration Is Bad
Andy Cush · 10/21/15 09:36AMPlenty of people agree that America should stop throwing every last shoplifter or weed-smoker in jail. On the right they get to talk about reducing incarceration’s burden on taxpayers; on the left it’s a victory for civil rights. Now, even the country’s top law enforcement officials—those who you’d think would be driving mass incarceration in the first place—are getting in on the act.
New York Police Officer Dead After Being Shot in East Harlem
Brendan O'Connor · 10/20/15 09:06PM7,000 People Were Detained at Homan Square, Chicago PD's Secretive "Black Site"
Andy Cush · 10/19/15 12:25PMIn February, the Guardian published a deep investigation into Homan Square, a shadowy facility where the Chicago Police Department takes suspects without booking them, entering them into any official database, or giving them access to a telephone or their lawyer. A new Guardian report claims that more than twice as many people have been “disappeared” into Homan as officials initially disclosed.
NYPD Officer Convicted of Lying About Photographer's Arrest
Brendan O'Connor · 10/15/15 05:50PMVideo Shows Cop Chokeslamming a 14-Year-old Student
Ashley Feinberg · 10/10/15 09:49PMA police officer in Round Rock, Texas grabbed a 14-year-old student by the throat and threw him to the ground on Thursday, as shown in a video that surfaced some time later that night.
NYPD Union Leaders Are Still Completely Out of Their Minds
Andy Cush · 10/09/15 10:21AMYesterday in front of the NYPD’s Civilian Complaint Review Board, a police captain pled guilty to pointing his gun at a pair of tweenage boys who were playing tag in their Bed Stuy street in 2013. He received just 30 days of lost vacation time for threatening deadly force against two innocent children. You might think he got off pretty easy. His union does not.
True Stories of Violent Cops From a New Report on NYPD Use of Force
Andy Cush · 10/01/15 04:43PMA man pushed to the ground by a police officer because he was locked out of his apartment. A cop who punched someone in the face for riding his bike on the sidewalk, and another who pulled his gun on a man for filming him. These are a few of the horror stories contained within a new report on NYPD use of force.
NYPD to Ask Officers to Meticulously Report Every Beatdown Doled Out
Andy Cush · 10/01/15 11:40AMNext time you have your ass handed to you by a member of New York’s finest—be it a hotheaded rookie who plays by his own rules or a grizzled veteran who’s too old for this shit—you’ll have the comfort of knowing that the officer is under strict orders to carefully report every aspect of the smackdown. Will he actually do so accurately? That’s a good question.