Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Appeal of Case Where Cops Destroyed Private Residence
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a case from Colorado, wherein 2015, police officers in the Denver suburb of…
Investigation Widened Into Deadly Drug Raid Triggered by Phony Affidavit
Article from Reason by Jacob Sullum. Harris County District Judge Kelli Johnson last week declared Steven Mallet, who served 10 months in jail after he was arrested for selling crack cocaine in…
LAPD Falsely Identified Gang Members to Boost Numbers
Article from Reason by Zuri Davis. An internal investigation uncovered several officers within the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) falsely identified innocent Californians in traffic stops as gang members in…
Cop Caught Lying About Harrassment at McDonalds
Article from Reason by Robby Soave. Remember the Kansas police officer who claimed that McDonald’s employees had written “fucking pig” on his coffee cup? Welp, it was a hoax: The officer…
Texas Wants to Execute Man for Shooting Home Intruder
Article from Reason by Scott Shackford. Attempting to serve a search warrant by entering a house through a window got Killeen, Texas, Police Detective Charles Dinwiddie shot in the face and killed…
Police Owe Zero to Man After They Blew up his House
Article from NPR by Bobby Allyn. An armed shoplifting suspect in Colorado barricaded himself in a stranger’s suburban Denver home in June 2015. In an attempt to force the suspect…
Troopers Accidentally Record Attempt to Frame Activist
Article from Criminal Legal News by Derek Gilna. Journalist Michael Picard, who has previously recorded instances of police misconduct, was arrested by Connecticut state troopers on September 11, 2015, while…
Cops Try and Fail to say Bird Droppings are Cocaine
Article from Town Hall by Timothy Meads. A case out of South Carolina is highlighting the fact once again the drug-testing kits used by local police officers can be wildly…
Dirty Baltimore Cops Plant Guns; Steal Drugs and Money
Article by FLN Staff. Baltimore has issues; they already have record high homicide rates in the wake of high profile issues with their police. Now their cops are on trial…
