February 25th, 2010
In what is the biggest story of the week so far, New Orleans LA police Lt Michael Lohman has plead guilty to a federal obstruction charge concerning his testimony to federal agents about his role in a cover up of the Sept 4, 2005 post-huricane Katrina officer-involved shooting incident on the Danziger bridge [...]
January 3rd, 2010
Non-interactive push-pin map of police misconduct incidents recorded by the NPMSRP within the last 8.5 months of 2009
NOTE: To see the reports that were used to generate this map please refer to the 2009 Aggregate Police Misconduct Reports in the database menu bar at top. For more maps and [...]
November 11th, 2009
While I often post about the more common forms of police misconduct, namely excessive force and sexual misconduct, I don’t usually talk about the third most common form that we’ve been tracking… that being allegations of theft and fraud against police officers.
So far, since April, there have been 335 law enforcement officers, police [...]
November 3rd, 2009
Mosquito Cops?
First, some good news… A group in Texas called “Texans for Accountable Government” held a protest against Austin TX police department’s “No-Refusal Weekend” where cops at DUI checkpoints were enforcing a law that allows them to draw blood from anyone suspected of driving while intoxicated, with or without their permission.
While I’m [...]
November 2nd, 2009
UPDATE: For more current statistics, including our 2009 Annual Report that contains all data from 2009, please visit our Police Misconduct Statistical Report menu page.
Adding local law enforcement statistics to the Semi-Annual Report seemed so significant that I decided it was worth an updated post.
Introduction
The National Police Misconduct Statistics and [...]
October 27th, 2009
According to the DOJ/FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program there are 14,169 county and city law enforcement agencies that participate in their UCR statistics gathering project on crime rates in the US. We can estimate from there that there are, perhaps, at least 15,000 law enforcement agencies in the US since one state, West [...]
October 11th, 2009
Members of a militaristic looking Dolton Illinois police department using an armored personnel carrier during a standoff in 2008
There’s trouble in Dolton Illinois, and it may go beyond the highly publicized videotaped beating of a special needs student by a Dolton police officer with a worrisome past.
By now, most people are aware [...]
June 18th, 2009
Seems like the celebrity media are abuzz with a story of two Ohio police chiefs who have been accused of concocting a plan to stage a break-in into Sarah Jessica Parker’s surrogate mother’s home in order to gather photos and other tabloidesque dirt to sell.
Martins Ferry Police Chief Barry Carpenter and Bridgeport Police [...]
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