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Worst Responders

From a 2017 complaint filed by David and Gretchen Jessen against Fresno County and the city of Clovis, California, for damages incurred during a police raid on their home. In…

Blood Money

by Andrew Cockburn,

Taxpayers pick up the tab for police brutality

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.

Good Cop, Sad Cop

From remarks by Joseph Esposito, a retired New York City police officer, during a wiretapped phone conversation with another former city employee. Esposito was accused in January of helping some…

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…

I Wasn’t Resisting

by Harper’s Staff,

From an audio recording of the February 14 arrest of Gerald Amidon. Boise, Idaho, police officers Cory Bammert, Deidra Harr, and Guy McKean were dispatched to the home of Amidon’s…

Texas manhandle

by Harper’s Staff,

Oh, the shame of it!

by Thomas Buckley,

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Worst Responders

Blood Money

Good Guy With a Gun

Good Cop, Sad Cop

Liberty or Undeath

I Wasn’t Resisting

Texas manhandle

Oh, the shame of it!

April 1964

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