Representative Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) recently introduced legislation to restrict the 1033 Program that allows the Pentagon to transfer surplus military equipment to local police departments. This bill arose in light of last year’s Ferguson controversy, which has raised many concerns on the militarization of police forces. The bill was originally introduced in the past congress, but it…
HOUSTON, TX – An off duty police officer pulled his gun and allegedly shot a woman in the face after a road rage incident. Kenneth Caplan was arrested and charged with shooting at a woman and grazing her face with a bullet after she honked at him for cutting her off on Houston’s 610 South…
WASHINGTON, D.C.–Another case of police corruption has rocked our nation’s capital. Linwood Barnhill Jr., 48, had been an officer for 24 years, working in Southeast’s 7th District station. He admitted in federal court last week that he forced teenage girls, some as young as 15, to work as prostitutes out of his apartment. Marc Washington,…
EL PASO, TX–After five months of pressure from the press, the city of El Paso finally released footage of how Daniel Rodrigo Saenz died. After watching the content, it’s obvious why the El Paso Times faced such a struggle to acquire the tape. The local newspaper made an open-records request last February after a grand…
PETERSBURG, VA– When 19-year-old Devin Thomas saw his neighbors being arrested outside of his apartment complex, he decided to record it on his cell phone. Police approached him, ordering Thomas to go inside. Another Petersburg officer asks Thomas how old he is. Upon hearing that he’s nineteen, Thomas was charged by the officer and the…
ALBUQUERQUE, NM–The family of Christopher Torres has received some long-awaited vindication in the 2011 death of their son. Torres, who suffered from schizophrenia, was shot and killed by police in his own backyard. According to an eye-witness, the officers were wearing civilian clothes and were beating Torres while threatening to shoot him. The neighbor thought…
Since the birth of the automobile, over 3.5 million people have died in-car accidents. While staggering, this statistic doesn’t even take into account the economic ramifications of car accidents. The lifetime costs of crash-related deaths and injuries among drivers and passengers totaled $70 billion in 2005. The rational fear of car accidents is compounded by…
BRIGHTON, CO–Colin Andersen, 19, was kicking back with friends in a parking lot near a playground when his group was approached by the police. Andersen’s friend was given a ticket for skateboarding, and the group was asked to leave the area. Andersen became agitated at that point. “[T]hey were asking all of us to leave…
TREMONTON, UT– Former officer Jeremy Rose has been accused of tricking an underage girl into believing she would be a model for the pornographic website Brazzers. Rose was an officer with the Tremonton Police Department and worked on sexual abuse cases in Box Elder County. According to court documents obtained by Fox 13, the investigation…
HOUSTON, TX– Don’t perform target practice on your own property unless you’re prepared for an escalated response from your friendly neighborhood SWAT team. In north Texas’ Harris County, reports of a “possible sniper” put two nearby schools on lockdown and sent dozens of police vehicles and an armored truck to Darbydale Crossing, where several homes…