Legal

The legal system versus inflammatory rhetoric

Implications that the officers acted with such disregard as “depraved indifference” under a criminal legal standard reserved for accused murderers are inflammatory and harmful to public discourse

January 26, 2011 10:10 AM

Terrence P. Dwyer, Esq.

Traffic Enforcement, Highway Patrol

Video: NY woman claims heart attack following traffic stop killed her husband

Woman says cops ‘forced’ her 72-year-old husband to run home in the snow to get her ID — an NYPD spokesperson refutes that the version of events

January 26, 2011 05:37 AM

Doug Wyllie

Officer-Involved Shootings

Video: Utah cop shoots, kills golf-club wielding man

The Salt Lake Tribune has released the graphic video to “show the public exactly how the events unfolded”

January 19, 2011 04:19 AM

Justin Cox

Wis.: Many fired cops drop appeals at 11th hour

March 06, 2006 12:46 PM

Former Ind. officer convicted of killing family

March 06, 2006 07:00 AM

Calif. LE support attempts to reform three strikes law

March 03, 2006 11:23 AM

W.V. sheriff sued for supposedly stopping CPR on gay man

March 02, 2006 10:29 AM

Jury convicts man in 1970 Minnesota cop killing

March 02, 2006 06:14 AM

Family of man killed by L.A. deputies settles lawsuit

March 02, 2006 05:58 AM

Judge refuses to delay shakedown trial of 2 Md. officers

February 28, 2006 12:57 PM

Legal

When is enough enough? Reconciling the use of force “coercion/custody” dilemma

February 27, 2006 10:33 AM

Major Steve Ijames (ret.)

Ga. council: Cops who pushed door open didn’t do $300,000 in damage

February 23, 2006 11:57 AM

Man gets two life sentences in killings of NYC detectives

February 22, 2006 03:55 PM

Man wants guilty plea set aside in killing of Kentucky sheriff

February 22, 2006 07:01 AM

Jury awards L.A. man $18 million for being falsely arrested

February 16, 2006 12:47 PM

N.J. river plunge death: Officer’s family to file suit

February 13, 2006 12:09 PM

Three Rampart scandal L.A. officers get $15 Million

February 10, 2006 01:02 PM

San Francisco: ‘Cops Gone Wild’ filmmaker sues for lost pay

February 10, 2006 12:58 PM

Ill. robber gets life plus 132 years for shooting, disabling officer

February 10, 2006 12:55 PM

Sheriff sends probe of videotaped airman shooting to Calif. DA

February 10, 2006 12:34 PM

L.A. County officers’ union loses an appeal to shield misconduct reports

February 09, 2006 11:43 AM

Machine gun was used in training, Ill. sergeant’s lawyer says

February 09, 2006 11:32 AM

Trooper disputes weapon charge

February 09, 2006 06:00 AM

10 chiefs oppose automatic weapon charges against Ill. troopers

February 08, 2006 06:37 AM

Man convicted in shooting deaths of two Penn. deputies

February 08, 2006 05:10 AM

Calif. deputy cleared in fatal videotaped shooting

February 07, 2006 12:25 PM

Legal

Setting the record straight on force continuums

February 07, 2006 05:49 AM

Hells Angels to get nearly $1 million for dogs killed in police raid

February 07, 2006 04:20 AM

N.C. woman accused of shooting officer husband will not face death

February 03, 2006 04:19 AM

Conn. city can ban display of police tattoos, court says

February 02, 2006 04:33 AM

Couple testifies Ill. trooper ‘told us we had to strip’

January 26, 2006 12:53 PM

Grand jury to investigate police actions in Katrina’s aftermath

January 25, 2006 12:33 PM

Minn. cop killer suspect: ‘I am not the bad guy at all’

January 25, 2006 12:14 PM

Legal

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