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By Chris Parker in Lists, Police bungling
Thursday, Sep. 2 2010 @ 9:00AM
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​The corrupting influence of power was on display when former Camden, New Jersey police sergeant Dan Morris pleaded guilty to federal charges that could've been lifted from The Shield -- planting evidence, making false arrests, trading drugs for information...


By Pete Kotz in Corruption, Police bungling
Thursday, Sep. 2 2010 @ 6:05AM
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​Breakfast Reading from the Village Voice Empire: He says the Miami-Dade PD has become a menace, regularly abusing and humiliating the people it's sworn to protect -- and then lying about it. He's now risking his career by speaking out. Miami New Times has the story.

By Pete Kotz in Police bungling, assault
Wednesday, Sep. 1 2010 @ 2:51PM
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​Since yesterday's tale of an inmate beatdown brought so much debate, we bring your another today. But this one is much more lacking in moral clarity. Gary Gieselman was busted in 2005 for writing bad checks, then promptly dumped in the Potosi, Missouri Jail...

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By Pete Kotz in Police bungling, unsolved
Tuesday, Aug. 31 2010 @ 8:10PM
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​Bedtime Reading from the Village Voice Empire: The device would only be used on violent inmates, says the sheriff. But a more powerful version tested by the Air Force nearly cooked five servicemen with serious burns, and the ACLU says that's torture. LA Weekly has the story.

By Pete Kotz in Police bungling, assault
Thursday, Aug. 26 2010 @ 9:50AM
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​Reader Qwerty7 responds to Video: Mark Ashford Gets His Ass Beat By Denver Police. He argues that Internal Affairs is a joke, and that cops should be held to a higher standard, not just punished when they're caught beating people on tape...

By Chris Parker in Lists, Police bungling
Thursday, Aug. 26 2010 @ 9:00AM
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​You can't keep a good man down, which is why you need to thwack him extra hard with the nightstick then light'em up with the taser a few times. If Denver's Broncos were as aggressive as their cops, they'd lead the league in Unsportsmanlike Conduct. As is, their hijinks have graduated them to the top spot on this week's Top 5 Police Blunders...

By Pete Kotz in Police bungling, Video archives
Wednesday, Aug. 25 2010 @ 4:53AM

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​Police stopped a car for rolling a stop sign. Ashford, who was walking his dog, told the driver he'd testify that it was a bad stop. So the cops asked Ashford for his ID. When he tried to take a photo of them to document the incident, they beat his ass...

By Pete Kotz in Police bungling, bizarre
Tuesday, Aug. 24 2010 @ 6:08AM
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​Breakfast Reading from the Village Voice Empire: They were dressed as zombies to protest consumerism during the city's Aquatennial festivities. But someone called 911, thinking their homemade PA system was a weapon of mass destruction. City Pages has the story.

By Pete Kotz in Police bungling
Friday, Aug. 20 2010 @ 7:16PM
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​Bedtime Reading from the Village Voice Empire: The hammered internal affairs detective decided to get drunk before hopping into her unmarked car, losing control, going through a median, crossing a highway and coming to a stop, then puking. The Pitch has the story.

By Chris Parker in Lists, Police bungling
Thursday, Aug. 19 2010 @ 9:00AM

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​When cops lie to get warrants and conduct heavily-armed, no-knock raids, the death of an innocent woman like 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston is the almost inevitable result. The malfeasance within Atlanta's police narcotics unit that led to this enormous settlement tops this week's Top 5 Police Blunders...