Police Abuse
3 Supreme Court cases to watch in June
The clock is ticking for the U.S. Supreme Court. It's the second week of June and the justices always try to wrap up their term before the calendar hits July. As of this writing, there are still 28 cases pending. Which…
Denver case highlights potentially deadly hazards of warrants based on hearsay
On a Friday night in March 2023, Sean Horan called 911 to report that Michael Mendenhall, who runs a staffing agency out of a converted townhouse on Blake Street in Denver, had threatened him with a baseball bat. Based on…
Trump wants to revive the militarization of police
In recent years, American public opinion about police has swung wildly from strong support for law enforcement, to serious calls for reform in the wake of high-profile cases of police brutality and killings by officers, back…
Senate bill to ban ‘doxxing’ police would chill free speech
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R–Tenn.) introduced a bill Wednesday that would make it a federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison to publish the name of a federal law enforcement officer with the intent to obstruct an…
Police blew up Texas woman’s home and sent her the bill. A judge says she’s owed $60,000.
Years after a SWAT team in Texas destroyed an innocent woman's home while trying to apprehend a fugitive, the local government will have to pay her $60,000 in damages plus interest, a federal judge ruled Thursday. That…
Texas cop who killed unarmed man not entitled to qualified immunity
A federal judge in the Eastern District of Texas denied qualified immunity—a legal doctrine that protects local and state government officials from civil liability unless their actions violate a clearly established…
Brickbat: Armed, Elderly, and Dangerous
Two police officers in East Sussex, England, are accused of using excessive force against 93-year-old Donald Burgess, a wheelchair-bound amputee with dementia, after he threatened care home staff with a small knife. Within 83…
Trump deletes Biden’s federal police misconduct database
In one of his first acts after returning to the White House, President Donald Trump ordered the Justice Department to delete a nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal law enforcement. Along with rescinding former…
Brickbat: Tough Guy
Justin Gaither, a former police officer in Venice, Illinois, was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to deprivation of rights under color of law. Gaither struck a handcuffed man twice in the face, without…
Trump’s pardon of a corrupt former Virginia sheriff makes a mockery of ‘law and order’
"We must maintain law and order at the highest level, or we will cease to have a country, 100 percent," said Donald Trump, then a candidate for president, at a 2016 rally in Virginia Beach. "We will cease to…
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