16-year-old with hands up shot to death by cops during ‘no-knock’ raid in Alabama, suit says

Man threatens to harm himself; cops chase him to two-fatality wreck

Minneapolis agrees to pretend to overhaul police training and force policies after George Floyd’s murder

Civilian police oversight in Florida crumbles after new law kicks in

San Antonio’s ‘shit sandwich’ cop hired again as South Texas police officer

New autopsy casts doubt over “suicide” ruling in case of black man found hanging shortly after filing lawsuit against cops

NY prison emergency teams face scrutiny after fatal beating. Inmates call them the ‘demon squad’.

83-year-old man killed in crash when suspect fleeing traffic stop collides with his car

Deadly crash in Mississippi highlights risks of police chases

Abusive cop named in whistleblower suit is convicted of assault; gets probation

Eight California sheriff’s deputies sacked for covering up a fellow officer’s attack on trans man

Cops chase motorcyclist into fatal wreck

Only two years later, Seattle Police Department fires Officer Kevin Dave for killing of Jaahnavi Kandula

US police killed record number of people in 2024

Key Oath Keepers leader revealed as former Las Vegas police detective

California police department where officers exchanged racist messages and bragged of beatings promises to be better

Ex-N.Y.P.D. leader denies sexual abuse accusations, through his lawyer

Court cites ‘excited delirium’ in ruling for Florida correctional officers in inmate death lawsuit
    What’s ‘excited delirium’?

Correctional sergeant arrested in child sex abuse materials case in Chowchilla

Arizona cops walk without criminal charges after colluding with prosecutors to treat protesters as ‘gang members’

Cops chase stolen car into 90-mph wreck, killing three

3 ex-deputies face murder charges in Virginia inmate’s death

Beyond excessive force: How police abuse women, the poor, the homeless

Cop who went berserk with gun at Halloween party pleads guilty to eight felony counts

Deputy pleads guilty to beating of transgender person who flipped him off

   
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  • @tipicaldik
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    52 days ago

    I work for a company that produces elearning, and we used to have a contract with the insurance trust that insures police forces and municipalities in Minnesota. The training we provided covered subjects that were designed to limit the number of lawsuits that these agencies were dealing with constantly. The year before George Floyd happened, Minneapolis’s police department decided they didn’t need to subject their officers to having to sit through this training each month, so they dropped their departments enrollment in this program. Guess which agency came crawling back the following year… Also, guess who our customer service dept had to deal with the most with calls from users trying to bullshit their way through said training when their deadlines for taking it would hit? Yep, you guessed it. Those officers would lie their asses off about taking the training, when all their activity in the courseware was meticulously logged by our Learning Management System. We could also tell from these logs that a lot of these officers would just click “Next” through the course as fast as they could and then keep retaking the end test until they’d finally pass it. Too many of them weren’t learning a damn thing. Our system has all kinds of things in place to keep students from doing that kind of stuff, but we had to disable all those checks and safeguards so those crybabies could get away with that shit…