Category: Police Misconduct

Most opponents of “police reform” use the tattered and by now the thoroughly discredited argument that police misconduct is the byproduct of “just a few bad apples” among the ranks of the police who are committed to the “protect and…

Racial discrimination in policy and policing has been a consistent problem in Texas since its inception. In a nod to this historical reality, Texas took the small step of putting laws on its books requiring law enforcement agencies to report…

The Texas Legislature has a significant piece of legislation pending before it calling for meaningful police reform. The failure to address the merits of the proposed Texas George Floyd Act will result in continued unjustified police misconduct, abuse, and homicides…

On May 25, 2020, as the nation was coming to grips with the deadly coronavirus pandemic, a cellphone video emerged documenting Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin suffocating the life out of George Floyd during a brutal chokehold that lasted eight-minute…

On December 22, 2020, a 19-year white veteran of the Columbus Police Department—44-year-old Adam Coy—shot and killed a 47-year-old African-American man named Andre’ Maurice Hill in his own garage. Coy and a fellow officer had responded to a 911 “non-emergency”…

We have posted many, many articles dealing with systemic racism and criminal justice in this country. We have offered news reports, social studies, and judicial opinions that have built a credible body of evidence that systemic racism is prevalent in: …

The brutal March 13, 2020, murder of 26-year-old ER tech Breonna Taylor in her home in Louisville, Kentucky, by local police has become another tragic entry in the history of brutality and systemic racism in American policing. The delay in…

Mississippi was the second state to secede from the Union and join a treasonous Civil War against the United States. It was a vain effort by white southerners, mostly wealthy plantation owners, to keep black people enslaved. When the “proud…