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A retired New York cop receiving a $65,000 annual pension was arrested Monday for killing four men in a cocaine deal gone wrong.
Nicholas Taraglione, 49, who retired in 2008 from the Briarcliff Manor Police Department after a scandal-laden career, is accused of killing the men in a bar owned by his brother, then driving the bodies to his home 30 minutes away and burying them in his backyard.
Neighbors became suspicious when they started smelling a strong stench coming from his home a few months back.

The Miami police union president who retaliated against a woman earlier this year for pulling over a cop for speeding was reprimanded by internal affairs last week.
Miami Police Lieutenant Javier Ortiz, president of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police, was reprimanded for “discourtesy” and “improper procedure,” according to the internal affairs report completed on December 15.
When contacted for comment Tuesday afternoon, Ortiz said he was not even aware of the decision but provided the following statement:

Two California cops who shot and unarmed man earlier this year, then continued shooting him after he fell down clutching his abdomen will not face criminal charges.
Fresno police officers Raymond Camacho and Robert Chavez pulled over Dylan Noble on June 25, suspecting him of walking down the street with a rifle in his hand, even though it was obvious from their body cam footage he was not carrying a rifle.

Once again, a jury found itself unable to convict a cop for killing an unarmed man – even with fellow cops testifying against the cop.
This time, it was a Texas jury which ended up deadlocked Monday in the case of Garland police officer Patrick Tuter, who was charged with manslaughter for shooting and killing a man named Michael Allen after a high-speech pursuit in August 2012.
Tuter rammed Allen’s truck with his patrol car, then fired 41 times – reloading twice – striking Allen three times, killing him.

Jason Miller was a New Jersey cop when he was caught on his dash cam pulling male motorists over to show them his penis, unzipping his pants to give them a close-up view of his genitals before walking back to his car without writing any citations.
It was a practice the Newton police officer had been doing for several months, turning off his dash cam to allow himself to shove his genitals in their faces without it being recorded.

Dave Ridley, a New Hampshire journalist and member of the Free State Project, was ejected from the Penrose Public Library in Colorado Springs last week after security officials told him he had to obtain permission from officials to record an anti-Trump meeting that was set to take place there.

Miami-Dade police officer Jonathan Lang could have received more than 20 years in prison for shooting at a car driven by a corrections officer in a 2014 road rage incident.
Especially considering he was caught on camera tampering with evidence in the hours after the shooting.
But he cried before the judge during his sentencing Thursday, blaming his actions on his “personal demons.”
And that apparently was enough for the judge to spare him any prison time, sentencing him to 10 months probation instead.

An Atlanta cop who kicked down a door and entered a home with his hand on his gun to threaten his ex-fiancee said it was all an accident.
But Atlanta police officer Phillip Barresi was arrested on home invasion charges anyway.
Now the rookie cop, who was sworn in on March 17, is on paid administrative leave until further notice.
Barresi was in uniform on November 28 when he drove to the home of his ex-fiancee’s parents and began repeatedly ringing the doorbell and kicking the door until it broke open.

A New Jersey state police officer was arrested and suspended from his job without pay for conducting traffic stops on young women so he could ask them out on dates.
Trooper Marquice Prather, 37,  has been charged with tampering with or falsifying public records for attempting to cover up his improper stops.
He was arrested Friday.
An internal investigation found that on several occasions Prather deactivated his microphone while asking the women out, then lied to supervisors claiming it had malfunctioned.

A Milwaukee cop arrested for raping two men in October was charged with homicide today in the shooting death of another man during the summer, which sparked two days of riots and protests in the Wisconsin city.
Dominique Heaggan-Brown, who was fired after the sexual assault arrest, was charged with first-degree reckless homicide for shooting and killing Sylville Smith on August 13.