• Pregnant Kentucky woman cited for street camping while in labor
(archived link)
• Indiana decertifies ex-cop who sexually abused a teen. It took two years and a Washington Post investigation.
(archived link)
• City of Chicago is ordered to pay nearly $80M over police chase that killed a 10-year-old girl
(archived link)
• Kerwin Harris died after a St. Louis cop held him in a chokehold. It was ruled ‘accidental’.
• Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office supervisor recommended that officers should receive an award, after jail staff left man in a mental health crisis handcuffed, face down, dying in a cell
(archived link)
• Judge allows testing of tissue from George Floyd, as officer convicted of killing him seeks new trial via wingnut claim Floyd died of a heart condition aggravated by a rare tumor
(archived link)
• Wyoming police officer charged with child sex crimes
• 4th Circuit strips immunity from cops who engaged in an insane amount of unconstitutional fuckery
• A St. Louis cop sent a Black man to prison, but the jury never heard about the officer’s past
(archived link)
• Family of ‘Cop City’ activist shot dead by Georgia police sue officers involved
• After 12 delays, ex-police chief who raped teen is sentenced to federal prison
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• Michigan cop is fired, as he’s charged with six child sex crimes
(archived link)
• L.A. sheriff’s deputy pleads guilty to beating transgender man who flipped him off
(archived link)
• US Bureau of Prisons pays ‘historic’ $115m to survivors of staff sexual abuse
• Judge rules El Paso DA illegally withheld evidence in at least 5 rural cases
(archived link)
• Deputies, medical staff plead not guilty in Santa Rita Jail death
(archived link)
• A suburban police force in New York strip searched nearly everyone it arrested, DoJ says
(archived link)
• Former deputy police chief, now pastor, arrested for alleged child sex crimes
(archived link)
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They protect and serve property.
Not even. When I had my car broken into they refused to even come and look. They just told me to fill out some form online. Nothing happened. Absolutely useless.
Rich people’s property.
And money
Property real and imaginary, lol
I would argue that they’re trained very well, albeit skewed toward defense tactics. I believe many of these problems would happen less often with a refocus of training and systemic emphasis on deescalation and conflict resolution tactics.
It should be “*To Punish & Torment”
