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* A Littleville Alabama police officer was arrested for making terroristic threats after an 11-hour standoff that involved SWAT teams from two different departments and officers from multiple agencies that were called in when the officer threatened to kill anyone who entered his apartment after causing a disturbance at his girlfriend’s home. Negotiators talked him into coming out peacefully.
* Three Chowchilla California police officers have to share in the cost of a $330,000 judgment against them for tasering and arresting an off-duty deputy in his own home after a false 911 call while he was trying to get his wife in order to show the officers that she was unharmed.I'm hopeful that people will see this particular incident, compare it to what happens when a everyday citizen is tasered and arrested without cause, and the results that happen from the justice system.
* The New York NY police department has been named in a wrongful death lawsuit alleging that a drug counselor at Rikers Island was wrongfully arrested for trespassing near his home and then died in custody 24 hours after his arrest because he was denied access to insulin and when he became critical authorities waited to take him to the hospital in a patrol car instead of immediately via ambulance.
* Four Greenville South Carolina deputies are the subject of an excessive force lawsuit filed by a man who was 18-years-old when he was tasered and beaten by deputies when he was arrested in an incident that was partially captured on dashcam which showed one deputy punch the boy 13 times in the head well after he was under control. That deputy was fired over the incident but the other three involved in the arrest were not disciplined for their roles.
* A Coraopolis Pennsylvania police officer was arrested on a communicating threats charge while apparently vacationing in North Carolina on allegations that he threatened to harm his wife.
* A Sacramento County California deputy is under investigation after she received a citation for battery after she allegedly punched another woman after their dogs were involved in a dog fight with several other dogs at a dog park.
* Fifteen Tulsa Oklahoma police officers are now considered “officers of interest” and nine of those have been named in a federal probe into allegations of corruption within the department that already resulted in one officer and a federal agent pleading guilty to charges and agreeing to cooperate in the prosecution of other officers.
* A US District Court judge has ruled that the Osceola County Iowa sheriff violated the First Amendment rights of an activist who was denied a concealed-weapons permit by the sheriff because he had pushed for reduced public safety budgets.
* The Nashville Tennessee police department is accused of ignoring and unnecessarily dropping domestic violence cases as demonstrated by the sharp increase in the number of DV cases that have been dropped without charges in recent history. The department had a dropped case rate of 211 per year in 2004 but those jumped to about 5,600 dropped in 2008. While the department claims this was the result of a new form the department used to determine whether a DV allegation should result in charges, it comes on the heels of allegations that the now-former chief fudged crime statistics to make the department look better.
* A Bargersville Indiana police officer was arrested on a DUI charge after testing at .20 BAC after he flipped an ATV and broke one passenger’s hip in the process.
* Three Chowchilla California police officers have to share in the cost of a $330,000 judgment against them for tasering and arresting an off-duty deputy in his own home after a false 911 call while he was trying to get his wife in order to show the officers that she was unharmed.I'm hopeful that people will see this particular incident, compare it to what happens when a everyday citizen is tasered and arrested without cause, and the results that happen from the justice system.
* The New York NY police department has been named in a wrongful death lawsuit alleging that a drug counselor at Rikers Island was wrongfully arrested for trespassing near his home and then died in custody 24 hours after his arrest because he was denied access to insulin and when he became critical authorities waited to take him to the hospital in a patrol car instead of immediately via ambulance.
* Four Greenville South Carolina deputies are the subject of an excessive force lawsuit filed by a man who was 18-years-old when he was tasered and beaten by deputies when he was arrested in an incident that was partially captured on dashcam which showed one deputy punch the boy 13 times in the head well after he was under control. That deputy was fired over the incident but the other three involved in the arrest were not disciplined for their roles.
* A Coraopolis Pennsylvania police officer was arrested on a communicating threats charge while apparently vacationing in North Carolina on allegations that he threatened to harm his wife.
* A Sacramento County California deputy is under investigation after she received a citation for battery after she allegedly punched another woman after their dogs were involved in a dog fight with several other dogs at a dog park.
* Fifteen Tulsa Oklahoma police officers are now considered “officers of interest” and nine of those have been named in a federal probe into allegations of corruption within the department that already resulted in one officer and a federal agent pleading guilty to charges and agreeing to cooperate in the prosecution of other officers.
* A US District Court judge has ruled that the Osceola County Iowa sheriff violated the First Amendment rights of an activist who was denied a concealed-weapons permit by the sheriff because he had pushed for reduced public safety budgets.
* The Nashville Tennessee police department is accused of ignoring and unnecessarily dropping domestic violence cases as demonstrated by the sharp increase in the number of DV cases that have been dropped without charges in recent history. The department had a dropped case rate of 211 per year in 2004 but those jumped to about 5,600 dropped in 2008. While the department claims this was the result of a new form the department used to determine whether a DV allegation should result in charges, it comes on the heels of allegations that the now-former chief fudged crime statistics to make the department look better.
* A Bargersville Indiana police officer was arrested on a DUI charge after testing at .20 BAC after he flipped an ATV and broke one passenger’s hip in the process.
