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
The Torrance Police Department of Los Angeles, California, is under intense scrutiny at both the county and state levels since two officers unwittingly unleashed a scandal after allegedly painting a swastika on the rear seat and smiley face on the front seat of a vehicle involved ...
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. ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
A police dog with the Dallas Police Department sniffed out $106,000 in cash in a traveler’s suitcase on December 2, 2021, at Dallas’ Love Field Airport. The canine, a member of the department’s interdiction unit, pointed his nose in the direction of a 25-year-old woman’s suitcase ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
A digital world that never sleeps and the proliferation of surveillance devices in the 21st century have irrevocably altered spycraft. The modus operandi of spies before the technological revolution, concocting cover identities or moving about unobserved, is now virtually impossible in the universe of information available ...
