Here are your congressional allies, coppers.

Your Repugnant Party doesn't think you worthy. But you support it anyway. Fresh off the pixels of The Washington Post comes an excerpt from this evening's story: 21 House Republicans vote against awarding Congressional Gold Medal to all police officers who responded on Jan. 6 Pro-Trump protesters storm the U.S. Capitol and clash with police …

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Columbus, Ohio cops charged with assault, ‘dereliction of duty,’ lying on a report during George Floyd protest

Pepper-spraying, assaulting peaceful protestors, depriving Americans of their civil rights, and lying on reports. But, hey, that's what pigs do. Meet Police Sgt. Traci M. Shaw, Officer Phillip Walls, and Sgt. Holly Kanode all of the Columbus, OH, Police Department. Each of these three smilin' White cops has been charged with criminal conduct during the …

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Louisiana State Police death squad under secret investigation.

The entire company of F-Troop -- 66 Louisiana State Troopers -- is being secretly investigated for a long history of brutality and racism. But the internal investigation is being conducted by their own employer. That's the same racist Law Enforcement Agency that already hid their 2019 murder of Ronald Green, for two years. Mug Shots …

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Only a quarter of US law enforcement provides voluntary use-of-force data to the FBI.

Cops will never voluntarily provide true transparency. Nor can we trust them to. From The Washington Post, June 9, 2021. For a second year, most U.S. police departments decline to share information on their use of force FBI is trying to create a reliable database on police shootings, but only 27 percent of local and …

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June 7, 1892: the day that lifted Jim Crow to the stars.

A man walks into a train station. But this is no joke. In 1890, Louisiana passed a Jim Crow law called the Separate Car Act of 1890. The law required that railroad companies provide "equal but separate accommodations for white and colored races." On June 7, 1892, Mr. Homer Plessy, an African American, challenged that …

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Guest column: William J. Bratton, former police commissioner and chief of police.

Talk is cheap. And trust is in short supply. Save it for the bargaining table. William J. Bratton, former Commissioner, Boston PD, former Commissioner, NYPD, former Chief of Police, LAPD. Reproduced in its entirety from The Washington Post, June 4, 2021: Opinion: As a longtime police chief, I believe we have to reestablish trust Opinion by William …

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Multnomah County Sheriff’s deputy under criminal investigation.

Deputy allegedly "misused" COVID vaccination cards. The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office has launched a criminal investigation into one of its own corrections deputies over the alleged misuse of vaccination cards.A law enforcement deputy for Sheriff Mike Reese has executed a search warrant on the home of Robert J. Haney, enlisting the help of the Clark …

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Alabama ex-cop convicted of murdering his estranged wife.

Three police agencies hired him, a fourth gave him the gun to kill her. Here's another story about how the criminal-industrial complex works. It's a story about the revolving door in law enforcement, and how bad cops get hired over and over again by just moving from one agency to another. And it's a story …

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LASO deputy arrested for sexually assaulting his niece. A dozen times.

The LASO Motto: "A Tradition of Service." It seems that pervert cops are preying on our children all over the country. But, then, they also kill our children, all over the country. And our husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, mothers, and fathers. All over the country. So why should we be surprised at a little sexual …

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Elmira, New York: prison guard convicted of larceny and attempted fraud.

Elmira, New York, Prison Corrections Officer Kyle Bouille, convicted of misdemeanor counts of petit larceny and attempted fraudulent practices under Workers' Compensation Law. December 22, 2020. There's your stellar conduct, your commitment to The Oath and the Law Enforcement Code of Ethical Conduct. There's another of "Our Finest." He probably learned his little tricks from …

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