Bad Cops & Prosecutors

NOTE: Site Closed

Posted on May 22, 2009
This site will be closed down at midnight PST tonight and will no longer be publicly accessible.Please feel free to visit our new effort at www.InjusticeEverywhere.comThank you for visiting.

Why I Moved Away From Seattle-Focused Coverage

Posted on May 20, 2009
I read an article from the Seattle Weekly this morning that was so incredibly frustrating that it solidified why I shouldn't cover Seattle issues anymore...These people have no idea that this site exists, none... makes me wonder what kind of research they did into this piece, because if they did they would have found that I speak to exactly the same issues they brought up...

Injustice In Seattle Is Everywhere

Posted on May 19, 2009
The new site, InjusticeEverywhere, is now operational.While I still have some work to do on the site, for all intents and purposes it will be where I primarily post new content from here on out. It may have had a bumpy start, as all new sites do, but thanks to the hard work of my great new hosts, FSBlogs...

Via Email Tip - LAPD Officer Pleads Guilty to Off-Duty Assault

Posted on May 18, 2009
This just in via an e-mail from a reader... Press release from the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office. Posting it here since the new site is still in transition and I have something to link to for the news feed... LAPD Officer pleads to assault while off-duty LOS ANGELES ? A 39-year-old LAPD officer pleaded guilty today to assault with a semiautomatic firearm stemming from a 2008 off-duty encounter with restaurant patrons at the Redondo Beach pier, the District Attorney?s office announced...

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Site News - InjusticeEverywhere.com is Down

Posted on May 18, 2009
If you haven't noticed, the new site www.InjusticeEverywhere.com is currently down back online er, keeps going in and out of service...after a 3 hour outage... My host provider is currently looking into it, last successful visit to the site was at 8:00am PST from a county government network in Wisconsin...

New Site Help

Posted on May 15, 2009
I'm hoping to have the new site up sometime this weekend.But, in the meantime, I'm opening up the floor for suggestions/help with certain things.1. Resource links - I still want to supply links for victims of police misconduct to, possibly, find help...

Plans for the new site

Posted on May 14, 2009
I just wanted to give people a quick summary of what I have in mind for the new nationally-focused site after I close this site down... and, of course, I welcome any other suggestions, opinions, comments, and any help I can get! Stories: Provide in-depth analysis of police misconduct stories in the news that offers a viewpoint that doesn?t fall for the bias from police department spokespersons, police union representatives, and police beat reporters who develop biased relationships with and work with cops day-in and day-out...

Twitter News Feed Change

Posted on May 14, 2009
Just a quick note to anyone using the Police Misconduct News Feed on Twitter, especially those who are using the RSS feed on their sites. I will be switching over from the Injust_Seattle Twitter address to a new InjusticeNews address overnight tonight, probably starting around midnight...

Almost Getting There

Posted on May 13, 2009
Ok, so it looks like the name is settled and I might have a line on a host that'll take the site... So now I need to figure out where to register the domain (and no, I will not give GoDaddy any business after they gave the Seattle police the InjusticeInSeattle...

New Site Name Status

Posted on May 12, 2009
As the previous post mentioned, this site is going away... I'm shifting focus to national coverage and will not be covering Seattle area issues anymore. So, it's time to change over to a new site with a new look and new name. That's where you come in...

Latest Seattle City Police Accountability Reports Declare Success, But Reveal Failures

Posted on May 11, 2009
I've been focusing more and more on national issues of police misconduct lately... maybe all the failures in Seattle are part of the reason why... for example: The Seattle Police Department's Office of Professional Accountability (the collective name for the department's internal investigations unit and the civilian police oversight system in Seattle) has actually been busy for once...

Site News - Changing Scope

Posted on May 11, 2009
Based on the feedback I've received about the site, and based on the lack of support locally here in Seattle for nearly two years, I'm planning on ditching the "Injustice In Seattle" site and transferring to a new site. The support I've been getting nationally for the news feed project has really shown me that this is the direction I should be going instead of wasting time trying to fix things here in Seattle...

Site Donation Policy

Posted on May 09, 2009
  As you may or may not notice, I've added a Donation button to the right of the page. I really didn't want to and held out on doing this for quite a while... but, to be honest, this effort has taken up a lot more of my time and resources lately...

Police Misconduct NewsFeed Update - First Week of May

Posted on May 09, 2009
Last month the National Police Misconduct News Feed captured 495 reported cases of police misconduct which averaged out to 16.5 cases per day, or 1 case every 87 minutes.Those cases of police misconduct allegations involved 531 officers and 49 police chiefs...

Cops Everywhere... They Lurves Us 2

Posted on May 08, 2009
 It appears as though the fine officers with the NYPD have their own message board where they apparently like to rant about this and that... such as sites like Photography is not a Crime as well as yours truly... (I wonder if they've seen Blue Must Be True? He keeps asking where I get all my hate-mail from...

National Police Misconduct News Feed Criteria

Posted on May 06, 2009
Since there have been a few questions and concerns going back and forth about what stories should and should not go into the National Police Misconduct News Feed I decided that it might be a good time to go over the criteria I've developed for picking stories that qualify and then open it up to comments, questions, and suggestions...

Police Misconduct - Widespread or Deep-seated?

Posted on May 05, 2009
While the National Police Misconduct NewsFeed project has just begun to give us a glimpse at the possible breadth of America's police misconduct problem, it sometimes fails to show just how deep it runs perhaps.Sure, when most people think of police departments where corruption and misconduct run deep, we think of big cities like Chicago, Oakland, New York, or Philadelphia...

The Politics of Truth

Posted on May 04, 2009
In 2007, several incidents of police misconduct, including allegations that officers who lied were never punished, brought public outrage to a head in Seattle and prompted city officials to create 2 review boards to look into the Seattle Police Department's policies and methods of dealing with allegations of misconduct and disciplinary actions against officers...

Well That Was A Dud

Posted on May 02, 2009
Site stats for the last month to give you an idea of just how stagnant this site has become. Hmm, two months of effort getting the news feed process right, hours upon hours scanning and entering reports of misconduct each day into Twitter and a database, a full 24 hours of effort analyzing the data and preparing the results to see how extensive police misconduct might be...

National Police Misconduct Reporting Project - April 2009 Statistics

Posted on May 01, 2009
With March clearly being a test run for the National Police Misconduct News Feed, April should be considered as our first month at this effort to gather information on all reported instances and alleged instances of police misconduct in the US.Now that all of the reports in April have been recorded, I've distilled the data and the results are as follows:General Statistics495 - Reported instances and alleged instances of police misconduct...

A Map of Police Misconduct

Posted on April 30, 2009
View 2009 April Police Misconduct Reports in a larger mapI'm thinking of creating an interactive map of police misconduct cases in the US each month, but it's a gigantic pain in the butt and will take a lot of my time... (Time is something which I barely have already between the working 2 jobs, taking care of family, this site, and the news feed...

From The Twitter Files - The Oddball Cops of April

Posted on April 28, 2009
As the end of April draws near I'm getting ready to compile the statistics from the first month of the national police misconduct tracking project. In case you didn't know, that project, of which the National Police Misconduct News Feed on Twitter is but a by-product, is an attempt to gather statistics on the extent and types of police misconduct in the US, as well as localities where misconduct may be more prevalent than others...

Seattle's Civilian Police Oversight System Gets New Auditor

Posted on April 25, 2009
On April 10th, the Seattle Police Department's civilian oversight system auditor's contract expired. That auditor, Katrina Pflaumer, was the first auditor for our current system, called the Office of Professional Accountability, or OPA, and appeared to do a pretty good job at being auditor from what little we can tell through the very secretive system we have in place...

Reader Poll: What Type of Police Misconduct Will Be Most Reported This Month?

Posted on April 23, 2009
There's a new poll up. I wanted to see what readers thought would be the most common police misconduct problem for this, the first month, of our national police misconduct tracking project.But, before you vote, some explanation...First, the options listed are among the top ten most reported types of police misconduct so far this month, so you already have a 1 in 10 chance of getting it right...

Personal Question For The Lawyers Out There

Posted on April 21, 2009
Never mind, I figured it out... Thanks!

To Speak Ill Of The Dead Says Something Of The Living

Posted on April 20, 2009
As I progress through the police misconduct tracking project and review each day?s stories of police misconduct, one of the many things I think about as I enter each dismal story of police misconduct that occurs across the US into Twitter and into my tracking database is; ?which one of these stories might grow legs and go national this time?? It?s a difficult thing to figure out, after all, since each story is deserving of equally broad attention to me...

Once a High-Valued IT Professional, Now Homeless and In Search of Justice

Posted on April 19, 2009
The following article is based on a reader's email and was published with his permission. Early in 2005, James E Simmons III flew into Seattle to work as a consultant. With several years-worth of experience in information technology security and regulatory compliance, his skills were highly valued, sometimes bringing in over $90 an hour on each contract gig...

From the E-Mail Bag

Posted on April 16, 2009
I received this last night from the local chapter of the October 22nd Coalition. Apparently they, along with the Tacoma chapter of the National Action Network and Revolution Books, are holding a meeting at Uptown Espresso in Belltown at 4pm on Saturday about the Malika Calhoun incident...

Site Note

Posted on April 16, 2009
Sorry for the light posting lately, I've not been feeling well... hopefully things will be back up to speed shortly. Thanks for sticking with us!

Some Days I Get Grief From Both Sides

Posted on April 14, 2009
I received a rather angry email from an, apparently, new reader the other day? I won?t reveal the whole message since I didn?t get permission to publish the person?s story? but it ended on this note: ?Either way [assuming that you are NOT the police running a fake website], we're fucked...

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