Police Across the Country Being Told Avoid Arrests Unless Absolutely Necessary

Police around the nation have gone on high alert, told by higher-ups and union representatives to wear bulletproof vests, keep off social media and make arrests only in cases most pressing and crucial to the safety of the public at large. The warnings come on the heels of the daylight shooting deaths of two New York…

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Video: Two Suspects Rob Little Caesars Pizza

PHILADELPHIA PA (December 23, 2014)–Central Detective Division is looking to identify and locate two suspects who robbed Little Caesar Pizza in Yorktown.

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Inequality, Products Over People, And A Warlord In The Best Of MuckReads From 2014

by Terry Parris Jr and Hanqing Chen
ProPublica, Dec. 26, 2014, 12 p.m.

Editor\’s note: This is our year-end super MuckReads list. Since you have plenty to read through the holidays, our next weekly list of MuckReads will appear on Jan. 9. Thank you for reading.

Law enforcement steps out of line

Beatings. Shootings. Broken bones. Since 2011, the city of Baltimore has paid $5.7 million to settle claims of false arrests, false imprisonment or excessive force by its police officers. In almost all of the largest payouts, local citizens were cleared of any criminal charges. — Baltimore Sun via @petesweigard

\”The agency has created a culture that says, \’If you throw a rock at me, you\’re going to get shot.\’\” Politico examines the U.S. Border Patrol, which it says has become \” one of the nation\’s deadliest law enforcement agencies.\” The Border Patrol has ballooned since 9/11 to 60,000 employees and it has a budget bigger than the FBI, ATF, DEA, Secret Service, U.S. Marshals and the NYPD combined. That growth has come with a cost: assaults, misconduct cases, corruption and excessive force complaints. — Politico via @YoungRJeremy

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