ThursdaySeptember252008

Police are looking into whether perhaps Tasing a naked man holding an 8-foot-long flourescent bulb so that he plummets of a high precipice to his death is a little…. hmmm…. excessive. 35-year old Iman Morales stood on a 10-foot...

WednesdayDecember262007

Twenty-three bilingual police officers in Houston, Texas are suing for unpaid overtime and other compensation due to the amount of work they have to do because, they say, the department has not hired enough Spanish-speaking officers: The officers are...

ThursdayDecember062007

American actors Woody Harrelson and Owen Wilson took a break from scoring weed helping cute, little orphans in Cusco, Peru to lay the smackdown on some mean, bad cameramen: Although the stars were seen doing good deeds while in...

TuesdayDecember042007

Steven Ray Hislinger, a former officer from North Carolina, pleaded guilty to going after Hispanic drivers in order to steal from them: On Nov. 13 and Dec. 22, 2005, Hilsinger stopped Hispanic drivers for minor traffic violations. Instead of...

WednesdayNovember282007

Some police officers in Tijuana have had their firearms confiscated due to an investigation and they have showed up for work armed with, get this, slingshots. It gets better, some of the officers are using marbles as ammo. Nothing...

WednesdayNovember212007

A survey conducted using seven (7) percent of the NYPD police force showed that cops don’t racially profile, they just only happen to stop black and brown-looking people: A RAND Corp. study acknowledged that 89 percent of the 500,000...

MondayNovember052007

Police in Mesa, Arizona are being hampered by their inability to speak to and understand callers in a city were 99% of all 911 calls are in Espanich. The language barrier threatens public safety by allowing criminals to escape...

MondayAugust202007

Residente, the MC of hugely popular Puerto Rican hip-hop duo Calle 13, hit the streets of his native island today to hand out free copies of his latest single, “Tribute to the Police.” The song is anything but—it verbally...

FridayAugust032007

Now that Telemundo has handed down a decision regarding his mistress Mirthala Salinas, L.A. mayor Antonio Villaraigosa hoped to “move forward” from the scandal by calling a midday press conference today to announce some fluff news. Unfortunately for him,...

TuesdayJune192007

A bizarre piece of news from Milwaukee, Washington caught our eye early this morning: former police officer and undocumented immigrant Oscar Ayala-Cornejo faces 6 to 12 months in jail for assuming the identity of his dead and buried cousin...

ThursdayMay312007

The Bureau of Justice Statistics released a study that says while Whites, Blacks and Latinos get pulled over in traffic in equal measures, Blacks and Latinos are more likely to get arrested. The study that covered police interactions with...

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