Bad Cops & Prosecutors

Police Misconduct NewsWatch for 03-04-09

Posted on March 04, 2009

Resetting Expectations in the Malika Calhoun Case

Posted on March 03, 2009

What Do We Tell Our Children About Police Brutality

Posted on March 02, 2009

Of Being A Better Advocate

Posted on March 02, 2009

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What Happens To Justice When There Is No Video

Posted on March 01, 2009

When Testilying Cops Make No Cents

Posted on February 27, 2009

Video Released Of King County Sheriff Beating 15 Year Old Female Detainee

Posted on February 27, 2009

Police Misconduct NewsWatch for 02-25-09

Posted on February 25, 2009
Just a brief note first, I apologize for the infrequent updates lately, I've been exceptionally busy and just haven't had any time to post new articles. There are several new stories in the works, hopefully I'll get a chance to post them soon! Trust me, I would rather be doing something that helps people like this than some of the other things I've had to deal with lately...

Patronage vs Misconduct - A Tale Of Two Cities Part 1

Posted on February 24, 2009
The Vice of Injustice and Virtue of Justicefrescoes at the Arena Chapel in Padua by GiottoOn January 30th, The Dallas Morning News broke a story about how two of four Dallas Police officers fired on 1/29/09 had actually been fired at least one other time previously but were reinstated upon appeal...

Police Misconduct NewsWatch for 02-19-09

Posted on February 19, 2009
Disturbing Video Evidence Shows Medical Examiner Misconduct In Mississippi Over at ReasonOnline, Radley Balko closes what we hope is the final chapter on corrupt Mississippi medical examiner Steven Hayne and his supposed bite mark expert Michael West...

Police Misconduct NewsWatch for 02-17-09

Posted on February 17, 2009
Local News Seattle Officer In Charge Of Inauguration Delegation Arrested for DUI Before Trip to DC The Seattle Police officer in charge of the contingent of officers sent to Barack Obama's inauguration was allowed to represent Seattle even after he was arrested for driving while drunk...

First Annual State-Of-The-Site Survey

Posted on February 17, 2009
This site has been operational for over a year now and I've been wondering lately whether it's been close to achieving some of what I had hoped it would achieve. This site is supposed to exist in order to help inform people about police misconduct and detainee abuse in order to: A...

Flowing From The Top - A Disturbing Trend Or More Of The Same

Posted on February 16, 2009
While part of what I do here involves scanning various news outlets for stories of police misconduct and detainee abuse. As such, sometimes I notice certain trends.While it's true that the number of stories of police abuses by officers in general appears to be constantly rising, overwhelmingly so in fact, I noticed another more disturbing trend developing...

When An Advocate Turns Against A Victim Of Police Misconduct

Posted on February 14, 2009
Whenever a case of mistreatment by police occurs it is, in its most simplistic form, a matter of vigilantism. That is, it's a matter of a police officer exceeding his role within the justice system and inflicting harm upon a citizen that he or she has presumed guilty and worthy of punishment...

Police Misconduct NewsWatch for 02-13-09 - Local Edition

Posted on February 13, 2009
A lot of news going on in Seattle so instead of a regular News Watch I'm turning the focus local for this issue... even though I have a lot of catching up to do for some national stories I'm looking into. Arrested For Standing While Black Tim Harris at the always intriguing Apesmas Lament tells the tale of a Real Change newspaper vendor named Donald Morehead who was selling copies of the local advocacy weekly paper when a Seattle Police officer allegedly knocked one of his teeth out, slammed his head against a cruiser, and then arrested him...

Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske May Be New Drug Czar

Posted on February 11, 2009
Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske is reportedly being considered for a cabinet-level position within the Obama administration, at least according to some unnamed sources. Those sources also hint that it appears as though Kerlikowske will be the next director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, or ?drug czar?...

Site News for 02-09-09

Posted on February 09, 2009
First of all, sorry for the slowdown in posting. With the economic downturn seeming to be in full swing, employers are in the position to demand more from the people they keep... so it goes for me as well and I've been bogged down in project work. Hopefully I'll have time soon to post something worth posting...

Police Misconduct NewsWatch for 02-05-09

Posted on February 05, 2009
As misconduct reports climb, more people than ever still trust cops. Before I get into today's news headlines, I just want to say that it's getting harder and harder to keep up with all the reports of police misconduct that are popping up all over the US and abroad...

Police Misconduct NewsWatch for 02-03-09

Posted on February 03, 2009
Screenshot of fake site created by SPD officers to gather information on police misconduct victims.LOCAL NEWSSeattle Police Department's Spy Website Still ActiveThe fake "Injustice In Seattle" website (click at your own risk), created by some Seattle Police officers in an apparent attempt to trick victims of police misconduct into giving up their personal information, is still operational over a year since it first popped up in response to this site being created...

Video Analysis - Was Pirone Justified When He Punched Oscar Grant

Posted on February 02, 2009
BART Police Officers Tony Pirone (left) and Johannes Mehserle (right)Tony Pirone, the BART police officer who has been accused of punching Oscar Grant in the head before he was shot in the back by Johannes Mehserle, has retained a lawyer and his lawyer has made a public statement suggesting that his client was justified when he struck Grant...

No Posts Today

Posted on February 01, 2009
No posts today... My wife and I are celebrating our 15th year anniversary so I won't be posting anything today. Yes, I know, some big stories today, like Tony Pirone's lawyer claiming Pirone struck Grant so hard that his head snapped back and knees buckled because Grant allegedly tried to knee Pirone...

Visitors Of The Week

Posted on January 31, 2009
Since Five Before Midnight seemed to like my Visitor of the Day post last week... well, maybe "like" isn't the right word... but since she thought it was interesting I decided to make a new one for this week.First... do you think anyone visited looking for info on how to donate to Oscar Grant's daughter's trust fund?Nope...

Police Misconduct NewsWatch for 01-31-09

Posted on January 31, 2009
LOCAL NEWS Sometimes Public Defenders Are Guilty of Misconduct Too Felipe Vargas was arrested in November of 2003 under allegations that he molested a child. Three days later that child recanted... but Vargas would still spend over seven months in jail for a crime that never happened...

Oscar Grant Shooting Update - Mehserle Granted Bail and More

Posted on January 30, 2009
BART Police Officers Tony Pirone (left) and Johannes Mehserle (right) As you may have already read, there's been some updates in the Oscar Grant shooting case. This will likely be the last I post about this case for a while, I think regular readers are a bit annoyed that I've devoted so many posts to this case, and I apologize for that...

New Poll - What Can I Do Better

Posted on January 29, 2009
I put a new poll up, asking readers to let me know what I can do to better help the effort to reduce police misconduct and detainee abuse as well as improving police accountability and transparency.Lately, I don't think I've been doing a good job of it, not that anyone really can given the difficulty of convincing the public that police misconduct actually happens, let alone that it shouldn't be allowed...

Police Misconduct NewsWatch for 01-29-09

Posted on January 29, 2009
Picture taken outside of the US Federal Courthouse in Seattle Washington First, A Confession... I've been busy... so busy in fact that the quality of the posts I've been putting up have really been lacking... for that, I apologize. I put them up without really reading over them for a final edit since I'm always rushed, and that doesn't do what I'm trying to do with this site any justice...

Slow Ahead

Posted on January 27, 2009
This week is going to be a bit slow with posts, I apologize for that, but my headaches have been getting bad again and my (paying) jobs require more hours from me this week. Things will hopefully be back to normal soon, but in the meantime I have a question for you, the readers, to ponder for me until I have a chance to post again...

Oscar Grant Shooting Update - Other Officers Might Finally Be Investigated

Posted on January 25, 2009
As I reported on 01/11/09, my analysis of the publicly available BART shooting videos clearly indicated that a second officer could be seen punching Grant in the head prior to the shooting... we published that analysis a full two weeks ago, and finally it seems as though others are reaching the same conclusion that I did, as KTVU reported yesterday...

Police Misconduct NewsWatch for 01-24-09

Posted on January 24, 2009
Local News Initiative 100 Puts Seattle Jail Issue To A Vote Tim at Apesma's Lament reports that a group called "Citizens for Efficiency and Fairness in Public Safety" have filed an initiative to force the city of Seattle to allow the citizens of Seattle to vote on whether or not to build a new jail and to force the city to study the use of alternatives to incarceration in order to save money and reduce recidivism...

The Seattle PI - Bringing Us The Good News And The Bad

Posted on January 23, 2009
It's been reported today that the Seattle Post Intelligencer won the 2009 Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting Award in the series category from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York for their "Strong Arm Of The Law" series of reports that ran in January and February of 2008...

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