Mark your calendars and get ready to buy tickets (and pay for them at $50 to much more). picked by indierockcafe 3 years ago

A motorist who refused to discuss his personal business with a St. George, Missouri police officer was threatened with arrest. Brett Darrow, no stranger to problems with police, caught a Police Sergeant stating that he had the power to invent charges that would put Darrow behind bars.
News Article and transcript. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

Laval police say they handcuffed a woman for not holding an escalator handrail because she refused to heed their warnings. The incident -- and the resulting fine -- has sparked criticism of the officers for being too aggressive. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

A woman who called police to complain that neighbors were harassing her for having sex with a teen was arrested on charges she had sex with a 13-year-old, police said. picked by Bornbad 4 months ago

Chicago's Police Department is investigating an officer's use of a Taser last month on an 82-year-old woman who police say was swinging a hammer when they arrived. picked by Proverb 2 years ago

Remember the story about Brett Darrow's run-in with a cop who threatened to lock him up on "made-up" charges? He was, of course, fired. Now his house is being staked out by the police who have gone on record that they desired to stalk and harass the man. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

A man in custody shot a small-town police chief to death Wednesday from the back seat of the chief's cruiser in Eastern Kentucky, a county official said.

Powell County Judge-Executive Darren Farmer said Police Chief Randy Lacy was shot by a man he had arrested shortly after 11 a.m.


-If he were following procedure, wouldn't he have checked the guy for weapons before he put him in cruiser? picked by bevissimo 2 years ago

A Journey into the mad, mad world of the British underclass and the Public sector, where nothing is too insane for it to be written down and copied in triplicate. VIEWS EXPRESSED PROBABLY DON'T REFLECT OFFICIAL POLICY. "This blog will do more to put people off calling the police than anything, other than actually calling the police." picked by spocksmyhomeboy 3 years ago

There have been several hysterical reports (some of them posted on Plime) about how new laws make it illegal to photograph the police. The main problem here is not the infringement of personal and civil freedoms, but that no-one seems to have bothered with the truth. The truth is there are no laws that prevent the photographing of the police providing the person with the camera isn't committing... read full post picked by pocksucket 9 months ago

A Wichita woman who found her 3-year-old grandson not breathing in a pool says a police officer made her stop trying to resuscitate the boy — even though she says the effort was helping to revive him. picked by nateebiinature 3 months ago

Police were in a three-hour standoff with a shed behind a Salt Lake City home before finding out it was locked and empty. Neighbors were evacuated and police shut down a portion of a city street nearby. picked by equinox 11 months ago

Police in Switzerland managed to discover a two-acre field of marijuana while using Google Earth as part of an investigation. Growers, you may be able to hide your goods from police in fields of corn, but you can't hide from the all-seeing eyes of Google. picked by Bornbad 10 months ago

A Nevada woman got her marijuana and pipe back from police Wednesday after her drug possession case was dismissed in Municipal Court. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

A Cambodian cow was taken into police custody for causing traffic accidents that resulted in the deaths of at least six people this year. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A malevolent raven described by authorities as "incredibly clever" is back at large after escaping from police custody. picked by Bornbad 2 months ago

A dual-citizenship American/French man dies. LA police call it a suicide, French police aren't so sure.

..."The homicide detectives' theory — which strikes his family and friends as unlikely, even absurd — was that de la Plaza took drugs, stabbed himself, then washed or disposed of the knife before dying." picked by lynxears 2 years ago

A Chicago Tribune investigation of 200+ police shootings going back 10 years shows nearly every shooting in last decade 'justified', and investigations ignore witnesses, forensics. Shot-in-back findings raise questions. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

As she arrived at work one afternoon, Kermen Basangova was stabbed to death in her car, the police said. A 34-year-old mother of two who was eight months pregnant, she was the victim of a contract killing, they said.

Members of the faculty and staff at the school expressed grief and confusion. They were even more confused the next morning, when Ms. Basangova returned to work. picked by bingo 5 months ago

Billey Joe Johnson, Jr. was a black all-star high school football player in love with a white woman. Unfortunately he lived in Mississippi. Police are claiming he killed himself with a shotgun when pulled over for running a red light. The evidence indicates otherwise. The cop who pulled him over on that dark road, and who is a friend of the girlfriend's father, claims otherwise. picked by 2manyusernames 10 months ago

Police say a woman stole two 14-karat gold bracelets _ by swallowing them. An employee at Hy & Mike's Pawn and Bail Bonds told police he saw the woman put the bracelets in her mouth May 27. Court documents say Salt Lake City investigators confirmed it by watching the surveillance video. picked by goober 1 year ago