Mark your calendars and get ready to buy tickets (and pay for them at $50 to much more). picked by indierockcafe 3 years ago

Chicago's Police Department is investigating an officer's use of a Taser last month on an 82-year-old woman who police say was swinging a hammer when they arrived. picked by Proverb 2 years ago

A woman who called police to complain that neighbors were harassing her for having sex with a teen was arrested on charges she had sex with a 13-year-old, police said. picked by Bornbad 4 months ago

A motorist who refused to discuss his personal business with a St. George, Missouri police officer was threatened with arrest. Brett Darrow, no stranger to problems with police, caught a Police Sergeant stating that he had the power to invent charges that would put Darrow behind bars.
News Article and transcript. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

Laval police say they handcuffed a woman for not holding an escalator handrail because she refused to heed their warnings. The incident -- and the resulting fine -- has sparked criticism of the officers for being too aggressive. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

A Journey into the mad, mad world of the British underclass and the Public sector, where nothing is too insane for it to be written down and copied in triplicate. VIEWS EXPRESSED PROBABLY DON'T REFLECT OFFICIAL POLICY. "This blog will do more to put people off calling the police than anything, other than actually calling the police." picked by spocksmyhomeboy 3 years ago

Remember the story about Brett Darrow's run-in with a cop who threatened to lock him up on "made-up" charges? He was, of course, fired. Now his house is being staked out by the police who have gone on record that they desired to stalk and harass the man. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

A Wichita woman who found her 3-year-old grandson not breathing in a pool says a police officer made her stop trying to resuscitate the boy — even though she says the effort was helping to revive him. picked by nateebiinature 3 months ago

There have been several hysterical reports (some of them posted on Plime) about how new laws make it illegal to photograph the police. The main problem here is not the infringement of personal and civil freedoms, but that no-one seems to have bothered with the truth. The truth is there are no laws that prevent the photographing of the police providing the person with the camera isn't committing... read full post picked by pocksucket 10 months ago

A man in custody shot a small-town police chief to death Wednesday from the back seat of the chief's cruiser in Eastern Kentucky, a county official said.

Powell County Judge-Executive Darren Farmer said Police Chief Randy Lacy was shot by a man he had arrested shortly after 11 a.m.


-If he were following procedure, wouldn't he have checked the guy for weapons before he put him in cruiser? picked by bevissimo 2 years ago

Police were in a three-hour standoff with a shed behind a Salt Lake City home before finding out it was locked and empty. Neighbors were evacuated and police shut down a portion of a city street nearby. picked by equinox 11 months ago

Police in Switzerland managed to discover a two-acre field of marijuana while using Google Earth as part of an investigation. Growers, you may be able to hide your goods from police in fields of corn, but you can't hide from the all-seeing eyes of Google. picked by Bornbad 10 months ago

A South Florida woman was thrown in jail overnight and charged with an “eavesdropping” felony after she videotaped police officers with their knowledge in a movie theater parking lot Saturday night. ... Adding insult to injury, she believes one of the arresting officers sent her an email bordering on sexual harassment, if not surpassing it, insinuating that she had lesbian sex with ... read full post picked by tgkprog 9 months ago

A dual-citizenship American/French man dies. LA police call it a suicide, French police aren't so sure.

..."The homicide detectives' theory — which strikes his family and friends as unlikely, even absurd — was that de la Plaza took drugs, stabbed himself, then washed or disposed of the knife before dying." picked by lynxears 2 years ago

As she arrived at work one afternoon, Kermen Basangova was stabbed to death in her car, the police said. A 34-year-old mother of two who was eight months pregnant, she was the victim of a contract killing, they said.

Members of the faculty and staff at the school expressed grief and confusion. They were even more confused the next morning, when Ms. Basangova returned to work. picked by bingo 6 months ago

A malevolent raven described by authorities as "incredibly clever" is back at large after escaping from police custody. picked by Bornbad 2 months ago

Woke up only after a police dog sank its teeth into her arm. picked by misswinkle 2 years ago

Billey Joe Johnson, Jr. was a black all-star high school football player in love with a white woman. Unfortunately he lived in Mississippi. Police are claiming he killed himself with a shotgun when pulled over for running a red light. The evidence indicates otherwise. The cop who pulled him over on that dark road, and who is a friend of the girlfriend's father, claims otherwise. picked by 2manyusernames 10 months ago

A man sued the New Orleans Police Department, claiming he was harassed by an officer who threatened to arrest him for wearing a black pinstriped skirt to municipal court. Jeremy Don Kerr is asking for $1 in damages, a ruling that his rights were violated, and an order against barring access to public facilities because of gender stereotyping. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

Until 1976, black officers were blocked from joining a state-supported supplemental police retirement fund.

Today, white officers who entered the fund before that year are taking home hundreds of dollars more every month in retirement benefits than their black counterparts. picked by doggylives 2 years ago