Conspiracy Cops - Bad Apples or Bad Barrels?

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 [...]

NPMSRP 2009 Preliminary Police Misconduct Statistical Report

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 [...]

Police and Thieves

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 [...]

Police Misconduct NewsWatch 11-03-09

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 [...]

2009 NPMSRP Semi-Annual Police Misconduct Statistics Report -UPDATED

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 [...]

With Leaders Like These...

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 [...]

Is There More To Dolton Than Meets The Eye?

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 [...]

Leading By Example?

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 [...]