Chronicle Book Review: Rise of the Warrior Cop
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces, by Radley Balko (2013, Public Affairs Press, 382 pp., $27.99 HB)Whatever happened to Officer Friendly? You may recall that...
View ArticleIndianapolis Drug Suspect Dies After Being Tased
[image:1 align:right]An Indianapolis man targeted by police in a drug investigation died Thursday night after a struggle as police attempted to arrest him. The as yet unidentified man becomes the 24th...
View ArticleFederal Judge Finds NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk Practices Unconstitutional
A federal judge Monday found that the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk search tactics violated the constitutional rights of racial minorities in the city and ordered a federal monitor to...
View ArticleThe Other Reason Bloomberg's Wrong About Stop and Frisk
[image:1 align:right]The other piece of big news today was a federal judge finding New York Police Department's "stop and frisk" program unconstitutional.read more
View ArticleThis Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
There's trouble down South, and more out-of-control NYPD narcs cost the taxpayers. Let's get to it:[image:1 align:left]In New York City, NYPD narcs run amok in Queens have cost the city $365,000 so far...
View ArticleN. Carolina Governor Vetoes Welfare Drug Test Bill
North Carolina Gov. Robert McCrory (R) Thursday vetoed a welfare drug testing bill pushed through the legislature by his Republican colleagues. Drug testing welfare applicants or recipients was a...
View ArticleNew Hampshire Cops Kill Man Fleeing Drug Sting
A undercover drug bust in a Weare, New Hampshire, shopping mall Wednesday night ended with the target of the bust shot to death as he attempted to flee. The as yet unidentified victim is the 25th...
View ArticleThis Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
More sticky-fingered cops, including one on a DEA task force, a cop tries to cover up a fatal drug deal at his home, another cop goes away over dope and hookers, and another jail guard goes down. Let's...
View ArticleSouth Carolina Man Is Latest Drug War Fatality
A Summerville, South Carolina man was shot and killed by police after allegedly engaging them with gunfire as he fled a traffic stop turned drug bust. Travis Miller, 22, becomes the 26th person to die...
View ArticleNew Orleans Police Officer Jailed for 2012 Drug War Killing
A New Orleans police officer who gunned down an unarmed 20-year-old man during a 2012 drug raid pleaded guilty to manslaughter last Friday and was led off to begin serving a four-year prison sentence....
View ArticleDEA Must Pay $3 Million in 2010 Killing of LA Teen
A federal judge Tuesday awarded $3 million to the family of an 18-year-old Los Angeles honors student who was gunned down by undercover DEA agents in a parking garage in 2010. But the judge also ruled...
View ArticleThis Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
Two Texas cops lose their jobs, a California jail guard gets busted at the playground, a Tennessee sheriff's lieutenant cops to slinging pain pills, and an Arizona Customs officer is headed for the...
View ArticleIndia Police to Spray Maoist Rebels' Marijuana Crops
Police in the eastern Indian state of Orissa said Friday they planned to use aerial spraying to eradicate marijuana crops cultivated by Maoists rebels, the Times of India reported. There was no mention...
View ArticleThis Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
Even corrupt cops take the Labor Day weekend off. We've only got two this week, and they're both from before the holiday, but they're doozies. Let's get to it:[image:1 align:left]In Normangee, Texas,...
View ArticleCalifornia Cops Gun Down Unarmed Meth Dealer
Undercover police in Sunnyvale, California, shot and killed an unarmed alleged methamphetamine dealer last Wednesday afternoon. Juan Ruelas, 34, becomes the 27th person to die in US domestic drug law...
View ArticlePrivate Plane Pilots Face Warrantless Drug Searches
Private plane pilots, especially those traveling to or through states with relaxed marijuana laws, are being subjected to warrantless searches by state and federal law enforcement, the Toledo Blade...
View ArticleThis Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
[image:1 align:right]More jail guards in trouble, and a Georgia cop gets nailed for helping meth dealers. As an aside, we occasionally get news of police officers busted for their pain pill habits, a...
View ArticleTexas Man Shot and Killed in Drug Raid
Texas sheriff's deputies executing a narcotics search warrant shot and killed a Hidden Harbor Hills man Monday night. Daniel Richard Vasquez, 33, becomes the 28th person to die in US domestic drug law...
View ArticleTexas Trooper Cleared in Chopper Drug War Killings
A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper who opened fire from a helicopter on a fleeing pickup carrying what he thought was a drug load near the US-Mexico border, killing two Guatemalan immigrants,...
View ArticleCalifornia Volunteer Marijuana Eradicator Falls to His Death
[image:1 align:left]A volunteer for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife fell out of a helicopter and died while authorities were conducting a marijuana eradication effort in Tulare County...
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