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Cops Raid the Wrong House, Tell the Owner, “You’re lucky I didn’t f*****g shoot you.”
Local deputies detain wrong guy; man wants apology. Conner Guerrero said the deputies were sneaking around his house, forced him on his knees on his lawn, and handcuffed him in front of his neighbors.
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Questioned for smoking
Lesson Learned: Cops are giant bullies.
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The War on Jaywalking: Los Angeles Police vs. Pedestrians
A crackdown on jaywalkers has raised questions about whether the police are siding with the automobile at a time when the city’s pedestrian culture is taking off.
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Technology Fuels New NYPD Police Cruisers
To the untrained eye, it looks like almost any other New York Police Department cruiser combing the city's streets— but this squad car has just as much brains as it does brawn.
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Thief who swallowed a victim’s gold chain is fed 96 bananas by police so they can reclaim it
Damu Gupta, 28, snatched the necklace on board a train from Mumbai to Gondia. But he was caught and police spent 24 hours retrieving the chain.
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One killed as Islamist students and police clash in Cairo
CAIRO (Reuters) - One student was killed on Saturday and scores were arrested when supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood clashed with Egyptian police at the Cairo campus of Al-Azhar University, state media
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33 cops killed by gunfire in 2013, the lowest number since 1887
In 2013, some of the year's biggest headlines involved cop killers.
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Man ‘high on meth fights off 15 police officers while masturbating in public’
A man high on meth fought off more than a dozen police officers as they tried to arrest him for allegedly masturbating in a bar. You just can't make this up.
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When having condoms gets you arrested
Last week, Mother Jones' Molly Redden wrote about a recent Human Rights Watch report, "In Harm’s Way," which argues that aggressive policing in New Orleans is contributing to the city’s soaring HIV/AIDS rates. One tactic that Human Rights Watch found to be particularly problematic: the police harassment of suspected sex workers for possessing condoms.
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Pa. Police: Cop Pepper-Sprayed Girlfriend's Son
A Pennsylvania state trooper has been placed on unpaid leave and charged with pepper-spraying his girlfriend's 13-year-old son because the boy stayed in bed instead of going to school. Trooper Ernest Boatright was charged with child endangerment and harassment, WTAE-TV first reported Tuesday.
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Louisiana's profitable prisons
Long jail sentences for trivial offences enrich local sheriffs’ and police departments in the state of Louisiana — and keep the local economy going.
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The county sheriff who keylogged his wife
On April 22, 2013, Miles J. Slack of Clay County, West Virginia made a bad decision. Slack was going through a divorce at the time and had grown concerned about his wife's relationship with an "unnamed individual." So he entered his wife's workplace after normal business hours, located her PC, and installed a tiny keylogger between her keyboard cable and her computer.
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Mexican vigilante gunmen disarm local POLICE so they can rid town of feared Knights Templar drug cartel
Hundreds of armed vigilantes stormed a Mexican town and arrested federal police in the latest bloody battle between residents, criminal gangs, and the police locals say are in league with the gang members. Around 600 members of local 'autodefensas', or self-defence groups, stormed Paracuaro in the troubled Michoacan state yesterday in an attempt to seize control of the town back from the feared Caballeros Templarios (Knights Templar) drug cartel.
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Hundreds of Turkish police dismissed
Turkey has removed 350 police officers from their posts in the capital Ankara, following a corruption probe targeting people close to the government.
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In 70 seconds things go horribly wrong
70 seconds: That's how long a North Carolina family says it took for things to go horribly wrong after they called police for help with their mentally ill son.
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80 From N.Y. Police and Fire Forces Are Charged in Social Security Fraud
Eighty retired New York City police officers and firefighters were charged on Tuesday in one of the largest Social Security disability frauds ever, a sprawling decades-long scheme in which false mental disability claims by as many as 1,000 people cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, according to court papers.
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'We called for help, and they killed my son,' North Carolina man says
Seventy seconds: That's how long a North Carolina family says it took for things to go horribly wrong as they sought police help dealing with their mentally ill son. Keith Vidal, 18, died Sunday. According to CNN affiliate WECT, he was just shot 1 minute and 10 seconds after a third law enforcement officer showed up at his Brunswick County home.
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Using Mirrors To Show Police What They Have Become
At noon on Dec. 30, protesters in central Kyiv held mirrors in front of police for 30 minutes to commemorate the night of Nov. 30 when riot police used excessive force to breakup a peaceful rally on Independence Square consisting mostly of university students. In a gesture to remind the police of their violent actions that memorable night, EuroMaidan demonstrators lined up with mirrors to show law enforcement personnel their reflections.
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Checkpoint refusal, cool reaction.
Pretty refreshing to see.
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For Ian’s sake — change
Police officers face stresses inherent to the job and need more helping dealing with them than they’re getting
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