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New York college student Nicholas K. Peart writes a disturbing yet familiar article in the New York Times about his experience with the police, entitled “Why Is the NYPD After Me?”
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Peart initially explains that even though his mother gave him an ominous warning about the police at the precocious age of 9 — “She
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CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — A well-respected former Colorado sheriff is being held on a half-million-dollar bond in the jail named for him, suspected of offering methamphetamine in exchange for sex from a male acquaintance.
Arapahoe County chief judge William Sylvester on Wednesday doubled the bond for the county’s former sheriff, Patrick Sullivan. The judge also ordered Sullivan not to try to contact anyone who may be involved in the case.
Sullivan’s attorney protested
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SANTA FE, N.M. — Surveillance footage caught an officer having sex on top of a car while in uniform in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Santa Fe Police have not released the name of the officer but claim they are investigating the matter.
KOB.com reports:
Read MoreKOB has blurred out the woman’s image, but you can see it’s during daylight hours and the officer is still wearing his utility belt.
The Santa Fe Sheriff’s office released the
SAN FRANCISCO — Two white San Francisco male police officers are suing the city for what they claim to be racial bias in the promotion practices of the police department.
Heinz Hoffman and Thomas Buckley filed a lawsuit complaint Aug. 16, stating “The city has a longstanding custom and practice in discriminating against white males.”
Read MoreAccording to the complaint in Hoffman v. SF, San Francisco, the SFPD changed its promotion exam
The city of Detroit is offering about 200 free and reduced price homes to police officers living outside the city limits in attempt to revitalize the city.
Detroit is seeing a housing crisis that was sparked by a huge decline in the population. The city’s population decreased 25% in the past decade, according to Census Bureau.
Read MoreNation columnist and MSNBC contributor Melissa Harris-Perry, said because Detroit is a city that’s struggling in a
LOS ANGELES – Two officers from the The Los Angeles Department of Transportation are being investigated for appearing in a sexually explicit video.
NBC Los Angeles reports:
Read MoreThe video, which is available on a popular adult subscription website, tracks the interactions of a porn actress as she approaches men in a range of work environments.
Various men in the film appear to grope her and perform a range of sex acts with her.
LOS ANGELES — A school police officer who reported getting shot in the chest — prompting the lock-down of 9,000 students during a dragnet — shot himself and has been arrested for filing a false report, authorities said. Officer Jeffrey Stenroos was arrested Thursday night over the hoax, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck announced at a news conference Thursday.
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A Framingham police Swat Team killed an unarmed grandfather of 12 in Framingham Massachusetts, 68-year-old Eurie Stamps. The Boston Herald Reports:
A Framingham SWAT team member yesterday was placed on administrative leave for fatally shooting a 68-year-old grandfather of 12, police said, as relatives struggled to cope with the sudden and violent death.
Early Tuesday morning, police raided the home at 26 Fountain St. as part of a multiweek drug
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New Jersey — Reuters is reporting on a new law proposed by New Jersey lawmakers that intends to curb steroid use by police officers and firefighters:
Law enforcement steroid use is a problem around the country and, given that steroid use can cause aggression, can invite problems for police, said Larry Gaines, chairman of the Department of Criminal Justice at California State University in San Bernadino, California.
“Aggression is not very common
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New Jersey — Camden, New Jersey, America’s 2nd most violent city, has layed off half of its police force according to the Huffington Post:
New Jersey’s most violent city approved layoffs for half its police force on Thursday.
The Camden City Council unanimously voted to layoff a quarter of the city’s government workers, including half of its police officers.
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