After 16 hours of deliberation, a jury acquitted a Delaware cop on Tuesday for kicking a suspect full force in the head, causing his jaw to shatter.
Dover police officer Thomas Webster IV was acquitted of felony assault and misdemeanor assault charges after deliberations spanned three days.
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 Philadelphia cop was arrested and is facing assault charges after being involved in a physical altercation with a woman.
Massachusetts has some of the weakest government transparency laws in the country, so state lawmakers decided to make them even worse.
A veteran police officer in Texas lost his job after his bizarre ticket-writing habit came to light where he would send citations through certified mail to people he had never pulled over.
Houston police officer Dave Carter claimed he determined these drivers were speeding by pacing their speed from his own car while off-duty.
A disgraced police officer in Arizona was arrested on charges of sexually exploiting a minor only two days after he was arrested on charges of domestic violence.
The most disturbing part? Apparently the minor is his own biological child.
Phoenix police officer Richard Tucker was taken into custody on Nov. 4 for a domestic abuse spat after his wife accused him of choking her, according to ABC 15.
A fender bender with a Florida Highway Patrol trooper in a busy intersection on the streets of Miami left a driver speechless when the law enforcement official lied about wrecking his car, even going as far as covering up the accident scene.
Francis François says he stopped to let traffic clear when all of a sudden a black unmarked SUV struck his car.
A Colorado cop is coming under fire after a mentally disabled woman is accusing him of having sex with her while she was drunk.
Denver police officer Travis Jackson was suspended on Tuesday by the Denver Civil Service Commission for 20 days but to the dismay of many not for sexual misconduct.
Florida Deputy Michael Szeliga was hailed a hero for his work as a cop, particularly for making 100 DUI arrests in Pinellas County, that is until he showed up “staggeringly drunk” to a Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) awards ceremony in Fort Lauderdale, where he was too “wasted” to receive an accolade for the DUI arrests he had made.
They don’t call it Fort Liquordale for nothing.
