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.
We must understand that the one way to not be audio- or videotaped acting badly is to act professionally at all times
In a few, fortunately quite rare cases, a good guy becomes the bad guy and these encounters turn deadly
This month, Police1 examines the sensitive issue of police officers who suddenly become deadly threats to other cops - we begin with the threat posed by impersonators
Officer Melodie Carpio admitted she broke the law and used her job to look up information about the couple on confidential law enforcement databases
Gilberto Valle’s bizarre online exchanges about kidnapping and eating women landed him behind bars and earned him tabloid infamy
Timothy Loehmann was fired for lying on his police application and will begin arbitration proceedings on Wednesday
Police said Sgt. Randolph Price, who was drunk, was speeding when he lost control and flipped his car, killing rookie Officer Bianca Bennett
Officer Carlos Anglero was found guilty of shooting into a home in the middle of the night after a dispatcher sent him to the wrong address
A grand jury said the Pennsylvania State Police should stop investigating shootings by its own troopers to ensure such probes are “free from potential bias”
The encounter began with the woman and her son wrestling and tickling each other as Rachmiel Gallman watched and laughed
Officer Erika Curry said she couldn’t find anyone to watch her kids during the storm because her firefighter husband was also required to work
The officer was fired for violating his department’s use-of-force policy despite being acquitted in the 2015 fatal shooting of 18-year-old Brandon Jones
Michigan State Police tried but failed to suspend Mark Bessner for his use of a TASER months before he fired a TASER at a teen who crashed an ATV and died
Phil Kiersnowski pulled over Sen. Jon Lundberg’s daughter and criticized the department’s window tinting enforcement policy
SFPD Officer Antonio Malinao Cacatian died by suicide in a mall parking lot after being pulled over by Richmond police
The union’s president said the “facts of this case do not add up to a termination” for Sgt. Kenneth Pierce
Fort Worth police Chief Joel Fitzgerald said Sgt. Kenneth Pierce became “impatient, initiated an unnecessary physical confrontation”
Nicholas Young was found guilty by a federal jury of attempting to provide material support to the militant organization
Prosecutors say Nicholas Young bought nearly $250 in gift cards for the Islamic State group and gave them to an individual who turned out to be an FBI source
A Palm Beach sheriff’s deputy shot his ex-girlfriend and killed himself
Officers from adjoining precincts reportedly argued with each other, shoved and even threw punches during a raid on a suspected drug house
A series of racist remarks following an assault were secretly recorded by an officer who was alarmed by the chief’s hostility
The Orlando PD’s policy requires its officers to stand for the anthem while they’re on duty
Two detectives have been suspended without pay amid reports that they’re facing criminal charges in the sexual assault of an 18-year-old
My story has been left untold for 49 years — until now, and only through the strength that the #MeToo movement has given me
The deputy yelled “Taser” before firing the shot
The Aviation Department fired an officer who “improperly escalated the incident” and a sergeant involved in removing facts from a report
Gov. Rick Snyder has signed legislation aiming to prevent police misconduct from being kept secret when officers leave for a job at another department
A judge has dismissed a misdemeanor charge against a former Texas cop accused of faking his own death and fleeing to Mexico
The detective was fired after he was seen on video cuffing a nurse because she refused to allow him to draw blood from an unconscious patient
The agency is investigating photos taken at the courthouse that included images of deputies and supervisors in various stages of undress on and off-duty
The LEOs “believe they did not violate any of the policies, procedures or practices of the Baltimore PD,” but “accepted the disciplinary action to move on”
Deputies were instructed to perform pat-downs of students