by Jo Ellen Nott
In nightmarish tale from Alabama, a small town’s police department lead by a new police chief hell bent on padding his department’s revenue near the state’s capital shook down hundreds of unfortunate motorists in a period of three years. From 2017 to 2020, the revenue from ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
Just when you think you had heard it all regarding Florida’s propensity to questionable money making, yet another case comes along that cloaks itself in moral respectability but has an element of graft. The public sex offense registry kept by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
The officer who shot a teenager in the back of the neck leaving him paralyzed is having his identity protected by the Miami-Dade Police Department in an overreach of Marsy’s law used by at least half of Florida’s largest law enforcement agencies.
In a 2018 referendum ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
Forty-six-year-old veteran Florida police officer Sergeant Christopher Pullease became unhinged and used inappropriate force on a fellow female cop when, following departmental policy, she tried to prevent him from escalating a situation with a young Black suspect on November 19, 2021. The suspect, 25-year-old Jean Similien, ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
“I don’t want to be his help,” Officer Luis Lozano of the Los Angeles Police Department was recorded saying when a fellow cop requested back-up for a robbery in progress in 2017 at a southwest Los Angeles Macy’s. What Officer Lozano and his partner Officer Eric ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
As part of the movement to reform policing in a nation shell-shocked by police brutality, oversight groups are starting to focus on the “excited delirium” justification for using lethal force in subduing suspects.
The Minneapolis Police Department is one of the first departments in the nation ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
The Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (“MPD”), some 3,400 officers strong, has rogue characters engaging in criminal misconduct on the clock and off but using the 160-year-old badge as shield for their bad behavior. Reporting from various sources paints a not so pretty picture of domestic ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
According to the Council on Foreign Relations, U.S. police killed far more people between 2013 and 2019 than any other wealthy democracy on the planet. Data drawn from the Mapping Police Violence organization show U.S. police officers killed more than 7,500 people during the period ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
When the Ortega military crack-down against dissidents in Nicaragua paralyzed most of the country in 2018, Norman became desperate to earn money when his livelihood of making ceramic souvenirs paying $133 a month vanished. The undocumented immigrant made the life-threatening trip from Central America through Mexico, ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
California Bay area self-styled cyber crusader Bob Innes has been receiving emails asking him to arrange murders for over 10 years. Innes created a website in 2005 to offer internet analytics services and named it “Rent-A-Hitman, Your Point and Click Solution” to draw in potential clients. ...
