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News in Brief by Alabama: Walker County Sheriff Nick Smith faces six misdemeanor counts after a grand jury indicted him on May 30, 2025, for knowingly employing uncertified personnel. WBRC in Birmingham reported that Smith’s second-in-command, Chief Deputy Ralph Williams, was also indicted on one count of providing false or …
Article • July 1, 2025 • from CLN July, 2025
How Police Departments Hire Bad Cops: The Shadow System Protecting ‘Wandering Officers’ by Clarence Walker, James Mills The police badge should be a shield for the public, not a cloak for predators. Yet across America, a dangerous undercurrent flows beneath the thin blue line: officers fired for brutality, lies, theft, …
Article • April 15, 2025 • from CLN May, 2025
Connecticut Compensates Exonerated Prisoners, Reforms Policing by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Connecticut is confronting its history of wrongful convictions by compensating victims and reforming police procedures. The state has moved to award $37.6 million to eight wrongfully convicted men who collectively spent 151 years behind bars. The …
Questionable Retail Theft Panic Fuels More Mass Surveillance and Police Militarization by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott The shoplifting crisis dominating recent news may be exaggerated, but it has delivered major wins for police departments nationwide. An investigation by The Appeal on March 27, 2025, reveals that fears …
Article • March 15, 2025 • from CLN April, 2025
California Police Misused State Databases Over 7,000 Times in 2023 by James Mills by James Mills C alifornia law enforcement agencies violated rules governing access to criminal justice databases 7,275 times in 2023, according to records obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (“EFF”). These violations highlight systemic issues in the …
Article • March 15, 2025 • from CLN April, 2025
Shakedown in New Mexico: Decades-Long Police Corruption Scandal Rocks Albuquerque’s DWI Unit by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Albuquerque is grappling with a sprawling police corruption scandal that spans decades, involving bribery, extortion, and racketeering within the city’s DWI enforcement unit. The scandal, which came to light after …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from CLN March, 2025
Fourth Circuit Decision on Claim of Retaliation for Exercising First And Sixth Amendment Rights Highlights Police Corruption by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford In a case containing factual allegations that seem like they were lifted from a movie or novel, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed …
Police Departments Are Now Using AI to Write Reports by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Axon, a company that makes products (including weapons) and services available to police departments, has begun selling a new product designed to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) to turn bodycam audio into police reports. However, …
Article • November 1, 2024 • from CLN November, 2024
Wisconsin District Attorneys’ Police Brady Lists Often Secret, Incomplete, or Nonexistent by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Wisconsin Watch disclosed that its investigation into Wisconsin District Attorneys’ police Brady lists found that many had no Brady list while others had lists that appeared to be incomplete or refused to disclose …
Article • September 1, 2024 • from CLN September, 2024
Investigation Reveals That Almost 90% of Discipline Records Temporarily Disappeared From Officer Tracking System Used by the NYPD by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott A ProPublica investigation published in May 2024 has uncovered significant reliability issues with the New York Police Department’s (“NYPD”) public database for tracking officer …
Woman Left Handcuffed in Parked Cop Car Struck by Train Settles Suit for $8.5 Million by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 5, 2024, Plaintiff Yareni Rios-Gonzalez agreed to accept payment of $8.5 million from Defendants Town of Platteville, Colorado, and the City of Fort Lupton to settle her …
The Catch-22 of Qualified Immunity by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Judge Don Willett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Judge Carlton Reeves of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi have authored opinions excoriating the doctrine of qualified immunity (“QI”). QI …
Article • August 1, 2024 • from CLN August, 2024
After California Cops Kill Someone, They Probe Families for Information on Deceased Before Telling Them Their Loved One Is Dead by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Bruce Praet, cofounder of the company Lexipol, offers California cops some advice in one of his online training webinars: When notifying the family of …
Reform-Minded Prosecutors Face Backlash for Prosecuting Bad Cops by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford   In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement spurred by the police-involved killing of George Floyd, citizens across the country elected reform-minded prosecutors who ran on platforms promising accountability for police who break the …
Article • June 15, 2024 • from CLN June, 2024
DOJ Creates Database to Track Federal Law Enforcement Officers Accused of Misconduct by Sam Rutherford by Samuel Rutherford   As reported by the Associated Press, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced the creation of a database designed to track serious misconduct complaints against federal law enforcement officers. The purpose of …
Monroe County Office of Mental Health & Rochester Police Dept., NY, Presentation on Excited Delirium, 2024 Monroe County Office of Mental Health & Rochester Police Department Psychological behaviors • Paranoia • Delusional • Agitation • Cannot follow commands • Emotional changes • Disoriented • Hallucinations • Looks like \\just snapped" …
Police Body Cameras, A Decade Later by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso It has been 10 years since body-worn cameras (“BWCs”) were posited as a solution to the lack of accountability in police murders of citizens, but police are still largely unaccountable, in part because the footage is often …
The Police Have a Dark Money Slush Fund by Katya Schwenk by Katya Schwenk This article was originally published on lever.com on March 29, 2024   Private donors including big-box stores, fossil fuel companies, and tech giants are secretly giving hundreds of millions of dollars annually to law enforcement agencies …
Massachusetts State Police Facing Possible Class Action Lawsuit for Illegal Recordings by The Massachusetts State Police (“MSP”) is the defendant in a potential class action lawsuit alleging that troopers secretly recorded nearly 200 individuals during criminal investigations, many of them drug cases. These recordings made by a phone app called …
Taxpayers Foot the Bill for Police Training on How to Violate Constitutional Rights by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Until recently, police departments in New Jersey were covering expenses for their officers to attend training sessions conducted by Street Cop Training (“SCT”), an organization that encourages “a hypervigilant warrior …
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