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.
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
The latest IACP “Police Use of Force in America” study found that coppers use “excessive force” in less than one-half of one percent of their force encounters
What should a police leader do amid a thermonuclear officer-misconduct scandal — something so heinous it rocks the squad room and the community?
Attorney Corey Amundson said the investigation into the death of Alton Sterling couldn’t prove that the officers acted unreasonably and willfully
The DOJ is planning to reveal in the next 24 hours that they’ve closed the probe, according to a report
The National Weather Service reported the high in central Florida on Friday afternoon was 88 degrees
Since March 1, Bradley County Jail officials have refused entry on medical grounds to at least three men
Police in Connecticut’s capital city have failed to report thousands of traffic stops as required by a state law aimed to prevent racial profiling
The solicitor general dismissed 89 cases where Officers Robert McDonald and Michael Bongiovanni were a principal officer or a main witness
Cleveland’s new county prosecutor appears to have left open the possibility he might not pursue misdemeanor charges against five supervisors in deadly 2012 pursuit
The department also has opened criminal investigations into the behavior of the two officers
Officer Jonathan Aledda is charged with attempted manslaughter and misdemeanor culpable negligence
The department said the officer displayed “unacceptable conduct”
Prosecutors said moving the trial wouldn’t achieve anything because the case received widespread publicity
Police Chief Mike Marshman is currently on paid administrative leave pending an investigation regarding police bureau training
Sheriff Jamie Kinman resigned after pleading guilty to charges stemming from the theft of painkillers from a terminally ill cancer patient
Derrick Stafford was convicted in the November 2015 shooting that killed Jeremy Mardis and critically wounded his father after a pursuit
A deputy is under investigation after a video posted online showed him ignoring a shooting call while he recorded a message to his then-girlfriend
Officials “determined it (the shooting) did not involve a prosecutable violation of federal criminal civil rights statute”
Baca was convicted of obstructing an FBI corruption investigation of jails he ran and of lying to federal authorities
Sgt. Kenneth Becker told Jesse Bright it was against a new law to film police officers
DOJ said its COPS Office won’t proceed with the collaborative reform process, and has made other technical assistance and training resources available
Federal prosecutors announced charges Wednesday against seven officers in Baltimore
Lee Baca is facing a retrial on charges that he conspired with underlings and obstructed justice in the investigation of civil abuses in the nation’s largest jail system
The bill allows the state commission that certifies law enforcement officers to close records about officers who have been fired or disciplined
The fight had to be broken up by multiple people
The officer did a series of roadside drug tests but got two of them wrong
Matthew Luckhurst was originally given an indefinite suspension in October after giving a homeless man a feces sandwich
The city agreed to pay $6.9 million to a man shot six times by an off-duty officer who had consumed 10 drinks before getting in his car to drive home
The bill would require any officer who is the subject of a “substantiated complaint” based on their job conduct to wear a body camera
Police believe the deputy was too drunk to drive and asked the inmate to drive for him
Lynch strongly defended the DOJ’s aggressive intervention in local law enforcement during the Obama administration
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