Teen strangled, slit 9-year-old's throat 1
Dad sets dog on fire for jumping on couch 2
Dad executes son accused of molesting 3
Thursday, Nov. 19 2009 @ 1:32PM

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"Drop the bunny ears, girlie, or you'll be flopping on the ground like a mackerel."
UPDATE: Officer Dustin Bradshaw has been suspended for seven days, but not for the reason you'd think. See update after the jump...

Earlier this week, we told you about the 73-year-old grandma who was caught on tape being tasered twice during a traffic stop. Now it seems an Arkansas officer has tasered a 10-year-old girl. Our question: Where the hell are they getting these cops?

Police in Ozark, Arkansas say officer Dustin Bradshaw was called to a home by a mother who couldn't get her 10-year-old daughter to shower before going to bed. He found the girl on the floor screaming and crying. Why police were called to diffuse a little girl's fit, we don't know. But something tells us we're not dealing with All-American Mom here.

What we do know is that the girl refused to follow her mom's orders, which little girls tend to do when throwing fits. So mom told Bradshaw to taser her ass...

Tags: Arkansas
By Pete Kotz in Police bungling, Video archives
Thursday, Nov. 19 2009 @ 5:55AM

What's with cops turning dainty these days? Can't anyone subdue a prisoner anymore without tasering them? In this case, a Michigan cop was suspended after tasering a man already in handcuffs.

Tuesday, Nov. 17 2009 @ 10:32AM
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12-year-old paperboy Johnny Gosch vanished in 1982 while delivering newspapers on his route.

Johnny Gosch, 12, had been working as a paperboy for a little more than a year when he vanished from his West Des Moines route in 1982 while delivering the Des Moines Register.  He left his parents' home at 5:45 a.m. on September 5, 1982, with his pet dachshund in tow. 

Suspicions of foul play, however, did not arise until about two hours later, when one of Johnny's customers called to say that his newspaper had not been delivered. Johnny's dad, Leonard, instructed his wife to call the police and went out looking for his son. He had gone barely two blocks from his house when he found Johnny's red wagon  full of newspapers, so Leonard delivered them to Johnny's customers...

Tags: Iowa
Tuesday, Nov. 17 2009 @ 8:00AM
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Rapist Michael Clemmons personifies the dumb jock
Tuesday morning's Breakfast Reading from around the Village Voice Empire:

Ever Heard of This Thing Called Evidence?
Three Santa Ana City College football players plead guilty to raping drunk woman... and taping the crime.

The Edinburg, Texas Pot for Inmates Program
Police send truckload of bananas to prison -- with 25 pounds of marijuana included.

Murder by Clock
Kira Roueche is accused of beating a man to death with a clock.

By Pete Kotz in Police bungling, Video archives
Tuesday, Nov. 17 2009 @ 5:43AM

When 73-year-old Kathryn Winkfein was pulled over for speeding in May, she wasn't exactly cooperative with Travis County, Texas Deputy Christ Bieze. She refused to sign her speeding ticket, then tried to head back to her car...

By Pete Kotz in Police bungling
Monday, Nov. 16 2009 @ 3:11PM
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Trooper Brent Gobbell was getting in touch with his inner oppressed white man -- along with 787 other state workers
Tennessee state trooper Brent Gobbell was apparently getting in touch with his white pride in October after receiving an form email about Caucasian victimhood.

Said the missive: "You rob us, carjack us, and shoot at us. But, when a white police officer shoots a black gang member ... you call him a racist." It goes on to list some of the more popular racial slurs, before urging recipients to pass it along -- if they're brave enough. "There is nothing improper about this e-mail. Let's see which of you are proud enough to send it on ... BE PROUD TO BE WHITE!"

But Gobbell isn't altogether computer savvy, it seems. When he tried to print it, he instead sent out a mass email... to 787 other state employees. And some of those were bound to be people who don't listen to talk radio, thus unattuned to oppressed white man logic...

Tags: Tennessee
Saturday, Nov. 14 2009 @ 5:29AM

Police in Russia are known to be gentle. After this traffic stop, as man tries to attack multiple police surrounding him, but he's a little too big to take down on their own. So after minutes of chasing each other around, the cops finally shoot him in the leg -- the beat the living shit out of him with batons.

Friday, Nov. 13 2009 @ 3:17PM

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Police found 11 decaying bodies in Anthony Sowell's indoor graveyard
UPDATE: Anthony Sowell was arrested last year for choking and attempting to rape a woman. But police didn't believe the victim and set him free. See update after the jump...

Fawcett Bess owns Bess Chicken and Pizza, across the street from the home of Anthony Sowell. This is where police found the bodies of 11 women -- left in the attic, stuffed in crawl spaces, and buried in his backyard. This is also where Cleveland police were called to at least five times in the weeks and months leading up to the discovery. But they did almost no investigation.

Bess recalls an incident two weeks before police discovered the bodies. He found a naked Sowell standing in the bushes next to his house. On the ground was a naked woman bloodied and beaten. Bess called 911 and an ambulance took the woman away. But police didn't arrive until two hours later -- and never bothered to interview him...

Tuesday, Nov. 10 2009 @ 8:30AM
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The stakes may have been incredibly low, but the good Republicans of Vernon, New Jersey tried to summon some major league intimidation against one of their own.
In this week's Scumbag Politician Alert! we turn once again to those fine public servants of New Jersey, where threats and intimidation are the mother's milk of that whole service thing:

Republican Richard Carson was elected to the Vernon Township council in 2007. But it seems his GOP colleagues felt he was a little too independent. So according to a racketeering suit he filed against the mayor, the local Republican chairwoman, and a cop, they decided to intimidate him into resigning.

This is a case as weird as it is bungling. According to the lawsuit, GOP chairwoman Andrea "Bunny" Cocula, Mayor Austin Carew, and officer David Hering repeatedly threatened Carson, telling him to "watch his back" and that his enemies were out to get him. They even warned him against going to the grocery store, telling him these mysterious "enemies" knew where he lived and worked...

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Jeffrey Dahmer could have been caught when a naked, bloody boy ran into the street
Reader "Ed" responds to Anthony Sowell Case: How Lazy Police Let a Serial Killer Run Free. He says there are a lot of parallels with the way Milwaukee police responded to Jeffrey Dahmer:

"This IS a perfect example of shitty / lazy cops, who are supposed to "serve and protect", and investigate any and all reports. Brings back the Dahmer case.. remember that one?

"Two women find a drunk / drugged up 14yr old boy running down the road, nude, and bleeding from his backside and call 911. Cops show up, and Dahmer tells the cops that the kid is his 19yr old lover. The cops didn't "want to get involved" in a dispute between supposed homosexual lovers, and turn the kid back over to Dahmer, even though the two women try to tell the cops not to...

Tags: Ohio, Wisconsin