Free Military Surplus Equipment A Boon To Local Law Enforcement

LA Sheriff's Sgt Bob Watkins with one of 5 H-3 helicopters received from the military

Law Enforcement Agencies in California are starting to look more and more like small armies thanks to a Department of Defense program that gives law enforcement agencies U.S. Military hand me downs.  Some agencies get helicopters, tanks, M-16′s while others might opt for bath mats or chemical protective suits.  All of it is free for [...]

Former Sheriff Seizes On Scandals In Pinellas Sheriff’s Office To Boost Election Bid

Former Pinellas Sheriff Everett Rice standing

Scandal is plaguing the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department Narcotics Division.  Sheriff Bob Gualtieri likes to tell everyone that he wasn’t Sheriff when all of the incidents in the Narcotics Division took place.  Former Sheriff and current candidate for Sheriff, Everett Rice likes to remind everyone that Gualtieri was Chief Deputy and responsible for the daily [...]

Miami Beach Officers Suspended Over Allegations Of Misconduct

Miami Beach Police Car

New Miami Beach Police Chief Ray Martinez has suspended two police officers who are only accused of misconduct.  The internal affairs investigations involving the officers are ongoing.  In one incident Officer Eric Dominguez is accused of driving his patrol car recklessly on a sandy stretch of beach.  In the other, Officer Michael Veski, who has [...]

Sanford Police Threaten To Arrest Reporters

Sanford Police Car

Sanford Police today sent out notice that they would arrest any reporters who tried to get off duty city employees to talk to them.  They stated that city employees had been “followed or approached at their home” and other places while off duty.  For up-to-date news accounts of this story, photos and to post a [...]

‘Scent Of Justice’ Lawyers Ask Justice Department To Investigate Pinellas Sheriff’s Pot Cases

Sheriff Bob Gualtieri

A group of lawyers and a private investigator calling themselves the ‘Scent of Justice’ is asking the US Department Of Justice to investigate the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department Narcotics Division.  The division has been rocked by multiple internal affairs investigations, detectives removed transferred from it and placed on administrative leave.  Most of the complaints stem [...]

Driver Busted By Cops, Exonerated By Cops Being Recorded On Phone Call

Susan Mait

Susan Mait didn’t know how much Geico was really going to save her.  She hit median and blew 2 tires in October.  She called the insurance company to arrange for a tow truck to come tow her car.  While she was waiting two Coral Springs Police Officers stopped to assist.  There was an exchange between [...]

Chicago Police May Miss Pay Raise Due To Union Mistake

Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President Mike Shields

According to Chicago City Hall the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police missed a March 1st deadline to notify the city that it wanted to open negotiations of it’s contract.  If true, it means that the city can forgo any negotiations at all, or only negotiate those items that benefit the city.  For up-to-date news accounts [...]

NOPD Officer Jason Giroir Resigns After Offensive Online Remarks

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Officer Jason Giroir who was suspended indefinitely on Monday for saying about Trayvon Martin, “Live like a Thug, Die like one!” has resigned from the New Orleans Police Department.  Giroir made other other comments also, admitted to making them in an internal investigation.  For up-to-date news accounts of this story, photos and to post a [...]

Sanford Police Had Requested Arrest Warrant For George Zimmerman In Martin Shooting

Special Prosecutor Angela Corey

The Miami Herald is reporting that the Special Prosecutor told them that the Sanford Police Department requested that the Seminole County State Attorney’s Office issue an arrest warrant of the arrest of George Zimmerman for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.  This was even though the Chief of Police Bill Lee has been quoted as [...]

LAPD Accuses Officer Of Racial Profiling

lapd cruiser door

After years of accusations of officers committing racial profiling, LAPD has finally found one of their officers “guilty” of pulling over Latinos just because of their ethnicity.  Officer Patrick Smith is also accused of stating Latinos as being white on reports to help cover up his actions.  For up-to-date news accounts of this story, photos [...]

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