In October 2022, Angela Prichard was murdered by her estranged husband, Christopher Prichard. The crime wasn’t entirely unpredictable; Angela Prichard had repeatedly sought help from police months before she was killed. But officers did nothing, even ignoring Christopher Prichard’s repeated violations of a restraining order. Angela Prichard’s family is now suing the city of Bellevue, […]
Tressa Beltran, former police chief of Hartford, Michigan, has been charged with multiple felonies, including delivery of narcotics, larceny, extortion, using a computer to commit a crime, embezzlement over $50 by a public official, and three counts of drug possession. Beltran reportedly admitted stealing from the drug disposal box at the police department. Now a […]
The Kansas Legislature unanimously passed a bill overhauling the rules for when police can seize property under a practice known as civil asset forfeiture. The Kansas House and Senate voted 120-0 and 35-0, respectively, to send S.B. 458 to Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s desk earlier this month. Among its provisions, the legislation would make offenses […]
An officer with London’s Metropolitan Police, whose name has not been released, was placed on restricted duties after being accused of taking money from a dead bicyclist’s wallet. Claudio Gaetani suffered a heart attack while riding his bike. Officers who responded to the call took his passport and wallet but allowed his friends to keep […]
The government is attempting to take away a Mississippi woman’s three children after her young son was shot in the chest last year. Bitterly ironic is that it was the government—not the mother, Nakala Murry, or anyone in her company—who did the shooting. In May 2023, Aderrien Murry, then 11 years old, dialed 911, reportedly […]
Dewonna Goodridge, a 57-year-old Junction City resident, says she worked 12-hour shifts, six days a week as a machine operator to save up money for her 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe. All it took for Kansas law enforcement to take it from her last June was a traffic stop that didn’t involve her and an evidence-free claim […]
In August 2022, Bruce Frankel’s fiancee dialed 911 after Frankel began having a grand mal seizure. But instead of receiving medical help, a police officer burst into Frankel’s home and tased him. Making matters worse, police engaged in an attempt to cover up their mistake by launching bogus charges against Frankel. Frankel has now launched […]
The Albuquerque Police Department’s Fleet Crash Review Board, which consists of four officers and a civilian, has unanimously deemed a February 17 accident involving Police Chief Harold Medina “non-preventable.” That conclusion, a local TV station reports, “got some city councilors asking questions” during an Albuquerque City Council meeting on Wednesday night. It is not hard […]
Last year, Kansas police raided the offices of a small local newspaper, seizing computers, the newspaper’s file server, and even personal cellphones. Police also raided the home of the newspaper’s owners, Eric and Joan Meyer. On Monday, one of the paper’s owners filed a lawsuit against the police, arguing that the raids clearly violated the […]
It has been more than five years since Houston police officers killed Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas, a middle-aged couple falsely implicated in drug dealing, after breaking into their home on Harding Street. That raid was based on a fraudulent search warrant affidavit in which veteran narcotics officer Gerald Goines described a heroin purchase that […]