By Kimberley Johnson on March 16, 2015
NYPD, Police Overreach, Wikipedia
Corruption, Police Overreach, Scandals

A recent report by Capital New York claims that for the past ten years, thousands of edits to Wikipedia pages related to police brutality have been occurring and can be traced directly to the New York Police Department. The report says in part, “Computer users identified by Capital as working on the NYPD headquarters’ network […]
By Samuel Warde on January 29, 2015
Police Intimidation, Police Overreach, Videos
Law & Order, Police Overreach, Videos

A San Francisco public defender was arrested at the San Francisco Hall of Justice on Tuesday, January 27, 2015 by officers of the San Francisco Police Department after objecting to the officers questioning her client outside a courtroom. SF Gate reports that Deputy Public Defender Jami Tillotson in “an incident that her office called outrageous […]
By Samuel Warde on January 28, 2015
Justice, Law & Order, Police Abuse, Police Overreach, Social Justice
Law & Order, Police Overreach, Social Justice, Weird News

In the wake of what many consider to be failures on the part of prosecutors to obtain indictments against the police officers responsible for killing Michael Brown and Eric Garner, a story out of New Mexico may shed some light on why some prosecutors seem to shy away from aggressively pursuing charges against law enforcement […]
By Samuel Warde on January 13, 2015
Dashcam, Police Overreach, Police Shooting, video
Civil Rights, Law & Order, Police Overreach, Videos, Viral Videos

An emotional dashcam video shows a Billings, Montana, police officer wailing and pounding his fist on the hood of a police car, saying he thought the suspect was going to pull a gun on him. The emotional dash-cam video shows Officer Grant Morrison shooting at suspect Richard Ramirez from outside the car then in tears […]
By Samuel Warde on January 8, 2015
Police Overreach, Tamir Rice, Videos
Law & Order, Police Overreach, Videos

Cleveland authorities have released new extended surveillance footage “showing the 14-year-old sister of Tamir Rice being forced to the ground and handcuffed moments after the 12-year-old boy was fatally shot by Cleveland police,” as reported by NBC News. NBC adds: After handcuffing the girl, an officer can be seen escorting her to the back of […]