By Trent Somes, III Two police officers jeopardize scores of California cases after new revelations of police corruption surface. Former Bakersfield police detective Damacio Diaz and his partner, Patrick Mara both accepted plea deals on a litany of charges. The officers were involved in a scheme of ripping off drug dealers they were arresting, taking…
by Amber Randall A Massachusetts police officer’s wife confessed to lying about a robbery and vandalism that occurred at her house, officials said Friday. Maria Daly, the wife of Millbury K-9 officer Daniel Daly, claimed to be the victim of a home robbery Oct. 17, reports CBS News. She told police that robbers stole $100,000…
by Eric Lieberman Local police officers are allegedly scanning the license plate numbers of people attending gun-shows per the request of the federal government. Agents employ devices that record the plate numbers of every car that passes through such events, according to emails obtained by The Wall Street Journal. The incident has raised questions from Fourth and Second…
by Kody Fairfield Following the indictment by a grand jury of two Marksville, Louisiana marshals, Derrick Stafford and Norris Greenhouse Jr., on murder charges for a multiple officer-involved shooting which led to the death of a six-year-old boy, the judge presiding over the case has released the body camera footage of the scene. The altercation which…
by Amber Randall A police officer never has good justification to kill someone, according to Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson. Mckesson compared an officer killing someone to the idea of a person killing their child at an event co-sponsored by the San Diego State School of Journalism and Media Studies, reports The Daily Aztec….
by Trent Somes As of this October, what police do in public is no longer public record in North Carolina. A new law in North Carolina allows police departments to keep body and dash camera footage secret, even from the people that were filmed, unless issued a court order. Police cameras become a topic of…
by Russ Read Nearly everything can be instantly recorded, and instances when police use deadly force face significant scrutiny — especially when multiple angles of the same event exist. But video evidence may not always be what it seems. While conventional wisdom may say that more evidence will help lead to the truth, it can…
by Eric July With the recent fatal shootings of Keith Lamont Scott and Terence Crutcher, another round of conversations about race and policing is among us. Usually the gripes and rebuttals go on for a few weeks and then it dies out until the next fatal shooting of a black person by law enforcement. However,…
by Eric Lieberman A man who claimed three Connecticut state troopers issued false charges against him while protesting a DUI checkpoint, was reportedly vindicated thanks to newly released footage from the man’s camera. Michael Picard is now suing the three state troopers for violating his First and Fourth Amendment rights, according to the official lawsuit filed Sept. 15. Picard…
by Micah J. Fleck The fact that this man was not punished for his earlier deadly offenses is still quite a disgrace, but at the very least there is now a chance that some sort of justice may still be served. 41-year-old Chicago officer Marco Proano was caught on video back in 2013 for opening…