• Pregnant Kentucky woman cited for street camping while in labor
    (archived link)

• Indiana decertifies ex-cop who sexually abused a teen. It took two years and a Washington Post investigation.
    (archived link)

• City of Chicago is ordered to pay nearly $80M over police chase that killed a 10-year-old girl
    (archived link)

• Kerwin Harris died after a St. Louis cop held him in a chokehold. It was ruled ‘accidental’.

• Seattle City Attorney strikes plea deal with cop who drove at triple the speed limit without siren, killing woman in crosswalk

• Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office supervisor recommended that officers should receive an award, after jail staff left man in a mental health crisis handcuffed, face down, dying in a cell
    (archived link)

• Judge allows testing of tissue from George Floyd, as officer convicted of killing him seeks new trial via wingnut claim Floyd died of a heart condition aggravated by a rare tumor
    (archived link)

• Wyoming police officer charged with child sex crimes

• 4th Circuit strips immunity from cops who engaged in an insane amount of unconstitutional fuckery

• A St. Louis cop sent a Black man to prison, but the jury never heard about the officer’s past
    (archived link)

• Family of ‘Cop City’ activist shot dead by Georgia police sue officers involved

• After 12 delays, ex-police chief who raped teen is sentenced to federal prison
    (archived link)

• Michigan cop is fired, as he’s charged with six child sex crimes
    (archived link)

• L.A. sheriff’s deputy pleads guilty to beating transgender man who flipped him off
    (archived link)

• US Bureau of Prisons pays ‘historic’ $115m to survivors of staff sexual abuse

• Judge rules El Paso DA illegally withheld evidence in at least 5 rural cases
    (archived link)

• Deputies, medical staff plead not guilty in Santa Rita Jail death
    (archived link)

• A suburban police force in New York strip searched nearly everyone it arrested, DoJ says
    (archived link)

• Former deputy police chief, now pastor, arrested for alleged child sex crimes
    (archived link)

   
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  • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I would argue that they’re trained very well, albeit skewed toward defense tactics. I believe many of these problems would happen less often with a refocus of training and systemic emphasis on deescalation and conflict resolution tactics.