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Police misconduct

The Untouchables

From incidents since 2011 in which the use of force by Chicago police officers was deemed reasonable or justifiable by supervisors or the city’s Independent Police Review Authority. The incidents…

Suing for Justice

by Ralph Nader,

Your lawsuits are good for America

Foot Patrol

From a complaint filed in October 2014 on behalf of a woman who was harassed by a police officer during a traffic stop in Harris County, Texas. In October 2015,…

A Camera on Every Cop

by Mya Frazier,

Taser International cashes in on police misconduct

Bleakness Stakes

by Ryann Liebenthal, Shayla Love,

From summaries of police-brutality cases recently settled by the city of Baltimore. An investigation conducted last year by the Baltimore Sun found that police-misconduct settlements have cost the city nearly…

Beyond the Broken Window

by Petra Bartosiewicz,

William Bratton and the new police state

Good Guy With a Gun

From a complaint filed in July against Heritage Park Care Center, a nursing home in Carbondale, Colorado, by Michelle Meeker, a former nurse at the facility. The case is ongoing.

Liberty or Undeath

by Harper’s Staff,

From a December 20, 2007, deposition of Jacob Sternberg, who, along with six other people, was arrested and jailed in Minneapolis in 2006 on a charge of possessing “simulated weapons…

Midnight Cowpoke

From September 23 proceedings in the case of Robert Melia, a police officer from Moorestown, New Jersey, who was videotaped engaging in sexual acts with calves in Southampton, New Jersey,…

Crowd control

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The Troubles I’ve Seen

by John Weir,