Officer Misconduct / Internal Affairs
The Officer Misconduct / Internal Affairs topic area features news, training and information related to cases involving potential or perceived law enforcement misconduct.
Officer’s 40-year federal prison sentence and two concurrent also affirmed
Disclosure designations tied to Brady and Giglio obligations can continue to affect an officer’s credibility, assignments and future career opportunities
Sexual harassment is not merely an HR issue or legal risk — it is a leadership challenge that affects trust, wellness, retention and the profession’s ability to uphold its own values
AB 2337 would have explicitly added theft committed under color of authority to the conduct that can lead to peace officer decertification
A Galveston County Sheriff’s deputy was captured on bystander video following a vehicle extremely closely without emergency lights activated
Ex-Santa Clara County undersheriff Rick Sung’s charges alleged that he and others leveraged concealed carry permits to extract political favors from often wealthy permit holders
The trooper allegedly took confidential data from multiple systems, including NCIC and Flock, and shared it with other people over text and Snapchat
The Village of Phoenix PD officer was shot with his gun after losing his grip on it during a bar fight that began when he pushed a woman to the ground
The San Jose officer used his personal phone to access the PD’s Flock system, locate a vehicle and send the information to his cousin, who then tracked down his accuser
The officer spoke with the man before and after he fell to the ground across a bike lane and a lane of traffic, but left the scene; the man was killed by a hit-and-run driver
Oakland Police officers Brandon Mart and David Mac pleaded not guilty to charges including conspiring to defraud the Federal Aviation Administration
K-9 Apollo weighed 41.6 pounds when he died, while a second retired police K-9 was found in poor condition at the former Dexter Police Department officer’s home
The Upper Pottsgrove Police corporal was responding to the scene after college student Glenwood Earl Pysher IV approached the wrong house and startled residents
The officer is accused of participating in and passing another department’s physical agility exam while also collecting payments from the Norwich PD due to a knee injury
Body camera video shows now-former Towns County sheriff Kenneth Henderson confronting a Hiawassee officer at a scene where a deputy had suffered a gunshot wound
A site that tracks Flock usage via public records requests found that one user in the Highland Heights PD searched the system more than 20,000 times in just over a year
Officers Antonio Felix and Luis Vasquez were arrested on charges including aggravated assault and kidnapping, Police Chief Matt Giordano said
The Colleton County Sheriff’s Office revoked deputies’ individual access to the ALPR system and now requires case-specific approval from the sheriff or chief deputy
Video from the Oct. 2025 incident shows Robert Parks’s cruiser veering off of a roadway and following a suspect fleeing on foot through a field
The Lake County deputy had let K-9 Axel out to play and returned to the cruiser to complete paperwork; when the deputy was dispatched to a call, they left without Axel
A grand jury charged Dequwan Houchins, 30, with five counts of misconduct in office and four counts of falsifying public records
Joanell Robinson, 41, was arrested on 20 counts of trespass against state computers and 20 counts of malfeasance in the office
Three of the West Palm Beach officers were captains accused of logging “off-duty” shifts while on the clock for standard department shifts, Chief Tony Araujo stated
Daniel Flores turned over roughly 90 recordings to his superiors, which allegedly reveal officers in the recruitment unit making derogatory and racist remarks
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg officer was charged with illegally accessing a government computer after allegedly handing undercover vehicle information to a person involved in a drug investigation
Officer Dedier Reyes did not intentionally falsify reports related to the investigation, but rather, he “truthfully reported his mistaken recollection,” the appeals court found
The Tampa Police Department found that Dukagjin Maxhuni did not give a man enough time to comply with his instruction to “turn around” before deploying a TASER
An internal investigation found that the officer allegedly used the a state law enforcement database to find information about a person who submitted a complaint about him
A citation for Lancaster Police Chief Ryan Hughes states he was involved in a single-vehicle crash; a bystander rescued Hughes after the crash caused his vehicle to catch fire
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