Rajan “Raj” Moonesinghe, 33, was shot and killed at his home by an Austin, Texas, police officer on November 15, 2022. He’d just returned home, and thinking his house was being burglarized, walked around outside with a rifle, then fired two shots into his house. A neighbor had called polic[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Police Abuse’
December 3rd, 2022 - 1:33 am § in Law and Courts
Should this trigger-happy cop stand trial for murder?
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[...]
December 1st, 2022 - 6:21 pm § in Law and Courts
Cops are human like the rest of us
Cops are people. They’re imperfect, they have weaknesses. For example, a San Francisco cop with “a string of misconduct complaints” was “accused of drunkenly lying to a game warden about poaching a deer on private property” (see story here). In another example, 54 Calif[...]
November 28th, 2022 - 10:48 pm § in Misc.
How do these people get hired as cops?
We need good police. We don’t want bad policing. Police departments across America apparently are dealing with staffing shortages, partly because cops are quitting. NBC News aired a segment about this on Sunday, November 27, 2022 (watch it below). In that report, NBC News interviewed several f[...]
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[...]
November 7th, 2022 - 5:23 pm § in Law and Courts
Let’s defund dumb cops
I’m a hardliner on crime; I want more cops, tough prosecutors, and long prison sentences for violent and career criminals. But we don’t make streets less safe by eliminating from police budgets the salaries and lawsuit settlements of cops like these. (Read story here.) Return to The-Ave.[...]
October 26th, 2022 - 10:56 am § in Law and Courts, Politics
Fire this cop
The Tulsa PD put him on “restrictive duty,” but that’s not enough. A police badge is the power of the state. It’s dangerous in the wrong hands. Do you want your city patrolled by someone who tells a Citizen Police Academy class, “Nothing is more dangerous to America tha[...]
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[...]
August 2nd, 2022 - 3:47 pm § in Humor, Law and Courts
How to go out in style
From Daily Mail (here): “A terminally-ill university lecturer who mooned a speed camera for his bucket list has been cleared of any criminal wrongdoing …. Darrell Meekcom, 55, was arrested in the garden of his home in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, by several officers after dropping his [...]