An Austin cop with a spotty history of being rude and overly aggressive pulls man over for going 5 mph over the speed limit. Within 45 seconds, the cop tasers the motorist, who he said was “argumentative.” In the subsequent investigation, the cop said he hadn’t eaten and conceded he has a medical condition that “makes you kind of edgy.” Internal affairs cleared him of all wrongdoing. The city’s new police chief does at least seem to have a better grasp on reality.
Former cop says police made excuses to cover for a fellow officer who killed a woman in an off-duty accident.
The state of Massachusetts is having a difficult time with a study to determine if black drivers are disproportionately pulled over because half the state’s police departments won’t comply with the study’s guidelines. This is about par for the course when it comes to police tracking their own mistakes. The Justice Department has been trying to collect data on police shootings for more than a decade now. It hasn’t been able to compile anything useful because most of the country’s police departments refuse to keep detailed statistics. Of course, we have very detailed statistics of police getting shot while on duty.
NYC cops arrest two men after a brawl in Yonkers. After discovering the two are off-duty cops, they simply let them go.
For good measure, here’s a positive–if a bit strange–story about a police officer who issued himself a ticket for inadvertently passing a stopped school bus.
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