Tyre Nichols was kicked and beaten to death on January 7, 2023, by five cops charged with murder. Memphis police issued the press release below the next day. Even making allowances for incomplete information, it’s a remarkable whitewash. By the way, the police chief has admitted there’s [...]
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Loren Culp’s crappy police work in child sex case settled for $275,000
A story in the Spokane Spokesman-Review in July 2020 reported (here), “In a long-running lawsuit, a woman accuses police and deputies in Ferry County of failing to properly investigate when she reported a pattern of rape and molestation spanning 12 years of her childhood. Among the defendants[...]
November 26th, 2022 - 7:56 pm § in Law and Courts
Suing police for no sense of humor
Anthony Novak of Parma, Ohio, parodied the local police department on Facebook. His fake website was online for all of 12 hours. They were not amused. Cops arrested him, searched his apartment,. seized his laptop and phone, threw him in jail, and prosecuted him for felony disruption of police operat[...]
November 26th, 2022 - 1:37 pm § in Misc.
Police chase (video)
What to do when a bird flies the coop? Go after it, of course. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
November 25th, 2022 - 2:50 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
This police killing cost taxpayers over $10 million
On January 18, 2016, Daniel Shaver, 26, a Texas pest control worker, was killed in cold blood in the hallway of a Mesa, Arizona, hotel by a police officer who was later acquitted of murder by a jury (read details here). Shaver, who was intoxicated, didn’t exercise perfect judgment. He had a pe[...]
November 11th, 2022 - 11:30 am § in Law and Courts, Racism
Another awful police department
Vallejo, California, is one of America’s most diverse cities; its population is roughly evenly split between whites, blacks, Asians, and Hispanics (details here). Not too surprisingly, it also has one of America’s worst and most racist police departments. I’m not sure where to star[...]
Police pursuit
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September 12th, 2022 - 3:33 pm § in Misc.
Look out for the Sandwich Police
You may meet up with one of these if you drive fast in Sandwich, Massachusetts, a picturesque Cape Cod town with many 17th and 18th century structures. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
September 2nd, 2022 - 11:10 pm § in Law and Courts
Police misconduct stories on 9/2/22
Case #1 “An East Tennessee law enforcer who bragged about the ‘tune-up gloves’ he wore when beating suspects to remind them ‘who the boss was” and shouted ‘I’m not sorry for what I’ve done’ when a judge convicted him of civil-rights abuses is headed to feder[...]
Florida voting police nab 20 vote thieves!
Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis’s new “Office of Election Crimes and Security” has identified 20 cases of suspected voting fraud since going into business on July 1, The Hill reported on Wednesday, August 18, 2022 (read story here). All of the cases are from Palm Beach, Broward, and [...]