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Welcome to policemisconduct.net! My name is Tim Lynch and I work on criminal justice issues here at Cato.This site is one component of our new National Police Misconduct Reporting Project (NPMRP). The...
View ArticleOur First Week — Reader Feedback
So our new website has been up for about a week now and I just wanted to express my thanks for the enthusiastic support we have received so far. Thanks also for the news tips — keep’em coming!Here’s a...
View ArticleNew Map Available
For interested persons, we took the 2009 Aggregate Reports and 2010 Aggregate Reports previously compiled by David Packman and exported them to a single Fusion table, which we then linked up with a...
View ArticleNPMRP in the News
From Frontline:Rodney King, who was found dead this weekend in a swimming pool at his house, once said that he believed his beating by Los Angeles police officers back in 1991 had “made the world a...
View ArticlePolice Chief Sounds Off
So this morning I received an angry email from a police chief in Michigan. His complaint concerns a story we related about a dog getting shot by a police officer. This is the item from our September...
View ArticleNational Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Recap 10-26-12
*Note* Due to Hurricane Sandy, Cato was shut down 10-29-12 and 10-30-12. When Cato shuts down, there will not be tweeting/blogging on PoliceMisconduct.net. Back up now :)Here are the 9 reports of...
View ArticleWorst of the Month — January 2013
We are starting a new feature here on the web site. We’re basically going to highlight what we think was the worst police misconduct story each month. We invite feedback from our readers–whether by...
View ArticleWorst of the Month – February 2013
This month it is the story from California where totally innocent people were shot by police during the manhunt for Christopher Dorner. There is no greater responsibility for a police officer than...
View ArticleWorst of the Month — March 2013
This is a bit tardy because of recent travels, but for March it is the story about former Police Chief Bruce Barlow from Mendenhall, Mississippi:The indictment said Barlow instructed “his officers to...
View ArticleWorst of the Month — April 2013
This month we have two particularly egregious cases in which police officers have been accused of crimes against victims. That is, these are instances in which people called the police for help, but...
View ArticleOne-Year Anniversary
Good morning! Today we are celebrating our one year anniversary here at policemisconduct.net!Our job here is to gather news reports about police misconduct in America in a fair and unbiased way. Our...
View ArticleReporting on Hold
Just an FYI that our reporting (tweets) will be on hold for a few days. Back up soon.Have a safe and enjoyable holiday weekend.Reporting on Hold is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
View ArticleWorst of the Month — June 2013
For June it was the woman who found herself arrested for simply asking to see the warrant the police claimed to have for her son.Turns out the police did not have any warrant at all. A false arrest...
View ArticleWorst of the Month — July 2013
For July it was the Anthony Mitchell Case: LAS VEGAS (CN) – Henderson police arrested a family for refusing to let officers use their homes as lookouts for a domestic violence investigation of their...
View ArticleWorst of the Month – August 2013
For August, it was the home invasion by the Dekalb County officers. There were probably worse consequences in some of the other August reports, but the DeKalb case didn’t result from a mere momentary...
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Worst of the Month – September 2013
So for September it was the case of Christina West. Not because it was particularly unique, but because it puts such a visceral image to the problem of police brutality. In this case, violence was...
View ArticleWorst of the Month — October 2013
So for October it was Atlantic City Police Officer Sterling Wheaton. Recall that David Castellani had exchanged words with police outside a casino. Those officers took Castellani to the ground....
View ArticleTrouble with Maryland Correctional Officers
From the Washington Post: Fourteen current or former Maryland corrections officers were arrested Thursday, accused of aiding members of a violent prison gang, the latest development in a sweeping...
View ArticleWorst of the Month — November 2013
For November, it had to be the repeated, forced, anal rape-search of young men—in two separate occurrences—in New Mexico. The first victim, David Eckert, was pulled over and detained for not making a...
View ArticleHoliday Break
We will resume our normal NewsFeed reporting, and catch up on the end of 2013′s news, on January 2, 2014. Enjoy the holidays! Holiday Break is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
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