by Jo Ellen Nott
The Polk County’s Sheriff Office in Central Florida arrested a Georgia deputy police chief on September 1, 2022, during a prostitution sting focusing on human trafficking in the area. Jason DiPrima, 49, of the Cartersville Police Department, was attending a polygraph training workshop in …
by Jo Ellen Nott
The cover-up of a drunk off-duty Suffolk County PD officer rear-ending a dad and his two small sons is the latest in a series of six case histories that Newsday has brought to the public eye since December 2021. The evening newspaper is uncovering …
by Jo Ellen Nott
On the night of July 26, 2022, an unconscious Black female was raped on the corner of Toulouse and Royal in New Orleans’ French Quarter. A visitor to the city witnessed the sexual violence and called 911 after a deputy constable on the street …
by Jo Ellen Nott
Kansas City, Kansas, (“KCK”) retired detective Roger Golubski used his position of authority and power to sexually abuse at least 70 women of color and with limited resources during his long career as a law enforcement officer in this midwestern city.
Legally, there …
by Jo Ellen Nott
On August 9, 2022, 40 groups representing immigration advocates and civil rights activists sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security, calling foul and asking for an investigation of the University of Farmington – a shell university set up by Immigration and Customs …
by Jo Ellen Nott
On July 29, 2022 a Michigan task force presented its findings and made 32 recommendations to keep young people out of detention facilities, provide them with better legal representation, and offer them more family counseling and mental health treatment. A key recommendation would eliminate …
by Jo Ellen Nott
On July 5, 2022, the Death Penalty Information Center reported that 5.6% of all death penalty sentences in the last 50 years were reversed because of prosecutor misconduct. That percentage represents 550 innocent people who were saved from state sanctioned murder.
The Center’s …
by Jo Ellen Nott
On the evening of July 10, 2022, an officer with the Gainesville Police Department (“GPD”) in north central Florida stopped Terrel Bradley, 30, on a pretextual traffic stop. Bradley fled the scene, and within an hour, a police K-9 had ripped his eye out …
by Jo Ellen Nott
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) signed House Bill 2319 into law on July 13, 2002, making it a misdemeanor offense to record police within eight feet of where law enforcement activity is occurring. State Representative John Kavanaugh (R) first sponsored the bill in 2016, …
by Jo Ellen Nott
Starting with a sex abuse scandal in 2017, the Louisville Metro Police Department has managed to draw the attention of the feds for a range of misconduct from wrongfully killing civilians to throwing beverages at them from unmarked police vehicles. All the cases are …
