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AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND @lemmy.world Doug Holland @lemmy.world

American police are out of control

• Memphis police ‘regularly violate’ Black people’s rights, justice department finds

• Protesters demand answers after 18 deaths at St. Louis jail in 4 years; latest death shrouded in mystery
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• Police illegally sell restricted weapons, supplying crime
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• DOJ investigation proves that if a police department isn’t known for its constant rights violations, it’s because it hasn’t been investigated yet
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• Eighth person dies in Tarrant County Jail custody this year after feeling unwell, sheriff says
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• Rapist detective dies by presumed suicide as long-awaited criminal civil rights trial set to begin
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• Retired detective claims leadership covered up corruption and rapist cop's alleged crimes
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• Honolulu pays $175,000 to settle lawsuit over arrest of a 10-year-old girl

• Who were the six white Mississippi "goon squad" cops who tortured Black men in 2023, and why did they think they could get away with it?

• Maricopa County Board of Supervisors approves $4M settlement in Phoenix man's jail death
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• El Paso County admits no liability, but pays $1,875,000 to family of man who died in jail
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• "I can’t breathe," says New Jersey man right before he dies in police custody
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• Seattle Police Dept is still delaying public disclosure by “grouping” records requests, in defiance of 2023 settlement

• "It’s long overdue": Experts call for statewide scrutiny of local jails amid inmate deaths, suffering
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• South Jersey detective accused of stealing drugs from evidence room
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• Since Texas sheriff Bill Waybourn took office in 2017, 65 people have died while in custody at the county’s jail
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• Cop who shot black woman in the head, in her home, will be released with the "least restrictive conditions" until trial
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• Mass puppycide ends career of Tennessee deputy who probably never should have been a cop

• "Special inspections" and "enhanced enforcement" planned after 13 inmate deaths at Bexar County Jail in 2024
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• Seattle PD fires community liaison suspected of selling stolen items, timesheet fraud

• Family who blamed Klickitat County Jail for son’s suicide to get $2 million settlement
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• Don't call the police.

   
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