Arthur D. Hlavaty

Why serial rapists don’t get caught

2019-07-15T17:55:56Z

Can anyone think of a good reason not to test rape kits? [Atlantic]

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Confederate Flag Underwear and Worse

2019-06-13T10:10:36Z

Social media gives many cops a chance to show what haters they are. [BuzzFeed News]

Thanx to Metafilter

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A leading cause of crime

2019-02-04T22:25:27Z

The NYPD Is Locking People Up for Crimes It Created Out of Thin Air [Reason; CW: libertarian cooties]

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Point Counterpoint

2018-03-30T10:05:46Z

1. District attorney who is on the side of justice

Thanx to Avedon's Sideshow.

2. NYPD: Providing the press with information about taxpayer-funded employees’ misconduct is illegal.

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Which would be worst?

2017-10-19T15:59:45Z

1. The NYPD has a database that cannot be searched because they are incompetent.

2. The NYPD has a database that cannot be searched because they are afraid of what would be found.

3. The NYPD is lying.

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Serial

2017-04-06T19:04:50Z

Chicago cop accused of framing 51 people for murder

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Blue wall of silence

2016-10-19T09:16:24Z

“Two Chicago police officers uncovered a massive criminal enterprise within the department. Then they were hung out to dry.”

Thanx to Avedon's Sideshow.

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Thieves

2016-06-12T10:26:15Z

Asset forfeiture is a process by which the cops become robbers. Oklahoma has automated it.

Thanx to twistedchick

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Encryption

2016-03-31T12:42:21Z

The war on math

Thanx to andrewducker

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Not rehabilitated

2015-09-12T16:18:09Z

Another recidivist cop who has repeatedly gotten the city sued for excessive violence has done it again (the James Blake case). Shouldn't the NYPD have a 3 Strikes Policy?

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Giving incorrect answers

2015-07-21T10:29:55Z

Independent Police Review Authority supervisor fired for independently reviewing the police.

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Threat or menace?

2015-05-18T10:44:10Z

When Scotland Yard snooped on Star Trek

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Literal hair of the dog

2015-04-23T17:18:32Z

FBI forensics experts sent a man to jail over "hair evidence" that was actually dog hair.

Thanx to kip_w

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Bad Hair Day

2015-04-21T10:29:21Z

The FBI gets caught faking lots of evidence.

Thanx to Charles P. Pierce.

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Quis custodiet?

2015-03-12T09:38:45Z

Your Secret Service at work and play

The Obama administration is investigating allegations that two senior Secret Service agents, including a top member of the president’s protective detail, drove a government car into White House security barricades after drinking at a late-night party last week, an agency official said Wednesday.

Thanx to Metafilter

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Cops kill again

2014-07-23T10:25:29Z

Clean words from the Rude Pundit on a lynching in Staten Island.

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Stinger stung

2014-02-28T18:48:51Z

BATFuckup

Thanx to Charles P. Pierce.

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True taser tales

2013-06-23T09:49:55Z

Things the police have done with the device they were given so they wouldn't have to use guns or clubs.

Thanx to Making Light.

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These are the people who are supposed to have guns.

2013-04-14T17:36:49Z

Florida police sergeant fired for having Trayvon Martin shooting targets

Thanx to Radley Balko on Facebook

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Armed cops in schools: What could go wrong?

2012-12-22T11:22:50Z

Thanx to Occupy the NRA on Facebook

And bart_calendar sums it up:

So, that's what will happen. People who got rejected by the police force, the local prison and the mall, walking around kids. While having a gun strapped to their side. Making minimum wage.

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Humpty Dumpty's First Law of Semantics

2012-08-05T16:29:47Z

wiretapping: taking pictures of the cops when they don't want you to.

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With intent to remain

2011-09-20T10:31:30Z

Disabled woman arrested for sitting.

Thanx to The Agitator

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New terms

2011-08-05T10:29:57Z

Police department redefines satire as cyberstalking

Thanx to The Agitator

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