Police Misconduct Blog

The New Orleans District Attorney has reached a $2 million settlement in the case of a wrongfully convicted man.
Robert Jones, now 48, spent 23 years behind bars at the notorious Angola prison for rape and murder. He was released in November 2015 following an appeals court decision that...

The following is the unedited statement of Maurice Lester Hall. Maurice, known to his friends as Reece, was in the car with George Floyd at the time of George’s arrest and tragic death. Our colleague Mark Kallenbach had the privilege and honor of representing Reece.
There are few...

In one of the first lawsuits of its kind, a Farmington Hills man is suing the Detroit Police Department after being falsely identified as a shoplifting suspect by facial recognition software. A federal study released in late 2019 showed that facial recognition software misidentified people of color...

U.S. Army Medical Corps Second Lieutenant Caron Nazario, 27, was driving home from a drill weekend on December 5 in his newly purchased 2020 Chevy Tahoe near Windsor, Virginia. Nazario, of Latino and African American descent, did not yet have permanent plates for the SUV from the DMV, but had taped...

Louisiana has the highest percentage of its people behind bars. Five times more than Iran, thirteen times more than China and far more than any other state (although a few other states are vying for second place.) It’s bad here. But what is worse, inmates are dying in record...

New York City police officers are no longer protected from civil lawsuits, as legislation passed March 26 by the New York City Council (“NYCC”) ends qualified immunity for them. That term refers to a legal principle protecting government officials, such as law enforcement officers, from...

A judge ordered the state of Mississippi to pay $500,000 to a man wrongfully imprisoned for nearly a quarter-century. The order included a $50,000 payment to Curtis Flowers’ attorneys.
Flowers was tried six times in a 1996 quadruple murder case. After spending years on Death Row,...

Were You Sexually Abused By a Police Officer? Ever drive by a convenience store and see a police car parked outside? Cops love hot coffee, fast service and the later hours offered at most convenience stores. The owners and employees of those stations like having cops around because it deters...

Florida has some of the most dangerous prisons in the United States. In 2001, there were 191 homicides and suicides inside Florida’s prison. In 2017 that number skyrocketed to 428.
Who knows what 2020 will look like after COVID-19 raced through several jails and prison in the state....

Having a baby is supposed to be a blessed event. It can quickly become a nightmare for mothers who are forced to deliver in a tiny jail cell without any medical assistance. Sometimes, babies can come very quickly and with little warning. In most cases, however, there is plenty of time to get the...