Fort Lauderdale cops Brian Dodge and Billy Koepke got off the hook in October after being acquitted for perjury, but couldn’t avoid the consequences from their department.
According to the Sun Sentinel, both cops lost their jobs on Saturday. Dodge resigned before he was officially booted out, while Dodge and their supervisor –Sgt. Michael Florenco – are appealing their dismissals.
A Chicago police officer who killed a fleeing man by shooting him in the back will not face criminal charges, Cook County State Attorney Anita Alvarez announced today.
The decision was announced more than a year after the October 2014 shooting death of 25-year-old Ronald Johnson; a year in which Chicago officials fought hard not to release the dash cam video of the incident.
A Miami-Dade police detective has come clean about stealing some bling.
Karel Rosario, a 19-year veteran, pleaded guilty earlier this week on Tuesday to stealing expensive jewelry while on-duty during a search warrant.
According to Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, Rosario came clean about taking a Cartier watch, a bracelet and a couple of other pieces of jewelry in May from a suspect’s home. The suspect was being investigated for allegedly selling pharmaceutical drugs.
Brevard County sheriff’s deputies never did like PINAC’s Jeff Gray, so even though they told him Photography is Not a Crime, they still wanted to know why he was taking photos of a power plant.
A Philadelphia cop was arrested and is facing assault charges after being involved in a physical altercation with a woman.
Sadly it is often that police officers around the country are arrested for rape on and off duty.
But it is not often that officers are arrested for raping fellow officers.
However, that was the case this week in Washington when Spokane Police Sergeant Gordon Ennis was arrested on second degree rape charges for raping a female officer in his department.
The Los Angeles Police Department is facing legal action for shooting an unarmed man in the head and leaving him with a collapsed skull, blindness and crippled.
Walter DeLeon waved a towel in his hands to flag down help in his neighborhood, when he encountered the two officers last summer.
DeLeon exchanged a few words and was quickly shot by LAPD officer Cairo Palacios on a Friday evening.
The horrifying and bloody viral video first posted to twitter on June 19th, 2015 by a witness.
Cops who patrol Boston public schools want permission to carry pepper spray while on duty, insisting they need protection from violence on campuses.
Because they are not allowed to carry firearms or pepper spray, they say they are unable to defend themselves from rebellious students and trespassers, leading to injuries and time lost from work, according to The Boston Globe.
A photojournalist who photographed Chicago police abusing a protesters during the 2012 NATO Summit, only to be beaten up himself by police, received a $100,000 settlement last month.
Joshua Lott, who was on assignment for Getty Images, said police destroyed one of two of his cameras as they stomped on him and beat him with batons.
He was jailed for misdemeanor reckless conduct, a charge that was dismissed when the cops failed to show up to court.
In an obvious effort to detach himself from the growing scandal in the Windy City, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired the police department’s top cop today, saying it was the first step in restoring confidence in the Chicago Police Department.
