Injustice Everywhere

While the National Police Misconduct NewsFeed project has just begun to give us a glimpse at the possible breadth of America’s police misconduct problem, it sometimes fails to show just how deep it runs perhaps.

Sure, when most people think of police departments where corruption and misconduct run deep, we think of big [...]

As the end of April draws near I’m getting ready to compile the statistics from the first month of the national police misconduct tracking project.

In case you didn’t know, that project, of which the National Police Misconduct News Feed on Twitter is but a by-product, is an attempt to gather statistics on [...]

Does an off-duty cop’s disrespect for the dead tell us something about what they think about the living people they are sworn to serve? [...]

Would the prospect of losing your job if you reported the misdeeds of a coworker enough to keep you quiet about misconduct? It wasn’t for this police officer… [...]

Normally I respect Norm Stamper’s opinion, but when he asks us to give police officers more deference than any of us citizens… I have to draw the line. [...]

Sometimes, even when there seems to be no incentive to lie, officers commit perjury… Why? Perhaps because there’s no disincentive? [...]

Often, the most telling information about police misconduct and the culture that supports it comes from former police officers who reflect on police misconduct issues. One instance of this recently is very interesting and, judging by the types of messages left by officers here and on other local sites, seems to accurately explain the [...]