police misconduct
Botham Jean’s unjustifiable shooting came with overgrown policing
Botham Shem Jean -- accounts from reliable news sources show -- was lawfully minding his own business when off-duty police officer Amber Guyger unlawfully entered Jean's apartment and shot him dead. Botham Jean's family lawyer says that other resident(s) heard the mortally-wounded Jean exclaim "Oh...
Police misconduct needs to be publicized, urges Fairfax criminal lawyer
Police misconduct needs to be publicized. As a Fairfax, Virginia, criminal lawyer, I know that letting police abuse remain in the shadows will perpetuate such abuse. Bringing it to the light of day enables public scrutiny to reduce police misconduct.
Terence Crutcher is Another Victim of an Unmanageably Overgrown Police State
Sadly, so long as the United States continues to have an overgrown criminal justice system and police state, Terence Crutcher's killing will be far from the last instance of wrongful police killings.
Police must at least be competent and should instead be highly qualified
The Tulsa sheriff's department's hiring of volunteer sheriff Robert Bates on the apparent cheap cost the life of Eric Harris, a tragedy for Mr. Harris's family, Bates's conviction and pending sentencing, and likely a huge dollar payoff from any lawsuit that Mr. Harris's family has...
Is misconduct so deeply ingrained in police culture that videotaping will not soon reverse the situation?
Police have awesome power. Power conferred will lead to power abused.
Having police misconduct so ingrained in so many police from generation to generation, that old habits will die hard, and the right systemic changes will not come about right away, particularly when the systemic changes...