Category: Bad Cops
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Illinois death penalty decision leaves uncertainty – chicagotribune.com
CHICAGO — Ten years after Illinois halted executions, the uncertainty over Gov. Pat Quinn’s pending decision on whether to end capital punishment for good raises a number of questions about the state’s current death penalty cases and the 15 men on death row. A bill recently passed by the state House and Senate would abolish…
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Workman’s Comp at Menard Correctional Center: the tip of the iceberg?
“In the past three years, $30.6 million was awarded to about 725 state employees in settlements who filed workmen’s compensation claims for repetitive trauma injuries caused by typing or unlocking prison cells. An additional $4.3 million was paid to all state claimants who missed work while recuperating from doctor-ordered time off or corrective surgery for…
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The Innocence Project: the court of last resort | Law | The Observer
Sarfraz Manzoor The Observer, Sunday 9 January 201 In the US, the Innocence Project has freed 260 people imprisoned for crimes they did not commit – and inspired a new film starring Hilary Swank. In the UK the work is just beginning, but the lawyers who only take the most desperate cases of injustice have a…
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The Star’s editorial | KCK police integrity at risk – KansasCity.com
This week’s arrests of four Kansas City, Kan., police officers after an FBI sting operation mark the second blow to the Police Department’s image within a few months. In September, a federal judge lambasted officers and two supervisors for participating in an apparent cover-up in which a citizen was allegedly beaten by a federal DEA…
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Cop Accused Of Brutality — A 9th Time | New Haven Independent
BY Melinda Tuhus & Thomas MacMillan | JAN 7, 2011 3:02 PM When Alvaro Garzon filed an official complaint accusing Officer Dennis O’Connell of choking and tasing him while he was handcuffed, it prompted the ninth internal affairs investigation of the officer in six years. (…) Garzon filed his complaint Thursday and participated in a…
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Felon who claims Chicago cop abused him to coerce false testimony at heart of convicted murderer’s bid for new trial – chicagotribune.com
By Matthew Walberg, Tribune reporter December 25, 2010 A Chicago police officer and the convicted felon he is alleged to have coerced and bribed into giving false testimony are the heart of Armando Serrano’s bid for freedom, according to a Northwestern University Law School attorney and a journalism professor trying to win him a new…
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Chief Ducks Carolers — & Brutality Questions
Just in time for Christmas, New Haven police headquarters hosted a group of carolers with a musical message: Fire a cop who’s been accused of beating multiple people. The group, comprising local anti-police-brutality activists, also delivered an oversized holiday card for the chief, complete with pictures of the battered faces of victims of alleged police…
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Waveland takes tasers from officers after 3 new lawsuits
By Danielle Thomas WAVELAND, MS (WLOX) – Waveland police officers are no longer carrying tasers after the city was hit with multiple lawsuits alleging police misconduct this week. Mayor David Garcia said over the last few days three lawsuits were filed against Waveland. In one suit, a woman claims that Waveland officers roughed her up, broke her nose and tased…
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Oakland officials, NAACP address allegations of abuse and police brutality | abc7news.com
Cecilia Vega OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) — Heavy-hitters met in Oakland in the wake of police shooting and killing a man who turned out to be unarmed. The NAACP, Oakland’s mayor-elect and the city’s police chief are all there addressing allegations of abuse and police brutality. The goal is to find solutions and ways to stop…
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Preventing wrongful convictions | Philadelphia Inquirer | 12/09/2010
By Marissa Boyers Bluestine The case of Louis Mickens Thomas, a life prisoner whose contested murder conviction was detailed recently in The Inquirer, exposes a flaw in Pennsylvania’s criminal-justice system that’s largely unknown to the public: Convicts are often unable to access evidence that could prove their innocence because the state has destroyed it or…