Houston Police Chief Charles McClelland went on the defensive Thursday during a meeting with local journalists, saying officers have made recent traffic stops in which residents leave their vehicles to take pictures or shoot video — encounters he says could endanger officers and that have increased following the release of the Chad Holley beating footage.
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"I've been on the fence for years about the legalization of drugs ... and now I'm a victim of this crazy war on drugs," says Freshman, who pledged to sue until "I see [the agents'] houses sold at auction and their kids' college tuitions taken away from them. There will not be a better litigated case this century."
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This is the second case of someone getting the death penalty from information gained from social networking sites. Would they have had a case without using their personal pages?
Read more »To apprehend a cop killer suspect, police have destroyed the house of the suspect's wife. No apologies forthcoming. Isn't what happens to the Palestinians in occupied Palestine?
Read more »A US man has been rejected in his bid to become a police officer for scoring too high on an intelligence test.
Read more »Cops detain and search man's apartment without warrant or permission. The story is pretty scary and these cops acted like complete thugs.
Read more »Cops in Dallas now get free cab rides home if they have been drinking.
Read more »The former commander of the Indiana State Police Toll Road post has been arrested on 17 felony charges, including 10 counts of theft, six counts of forgery and one count of official misconduct.
Read more »A New Orleans police officer was laughing after he burned the body of a man who had been gunned down by police in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, a fellow officer testified Thursday.
The testimony came during the trial of officer Greg McRae and Lt. Dwayne Scheuermann, who are charged with burning the body of 31-year-old Henry Glover in a car after he was shot and killed by a different officer outside a strip mall on Sept. 2, 2005. Three other current and former officers also are charged in Glover's death.
Read more »A squad of cops in bulletproof vests swooped into an upper Manhattan park and charged seven men with the "crime" of playing chess in an area off-limits to adults unaccompanied by kids -- even though no youngsters were there.
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