Friday, September 11, 2026

Tag: police

Mesa police officers placed on leave after beating unarmed man on...

“We hope and pray that the Mesa Police Department will accept responsibility for the misconduct of these officers."

Welcome to police-state America, weary traveler

How to make the tourists feel unwelcome, and citizens sick.

Police officer suspended for kicking handcuffed man’s head in video

Although several officers witnessed the assault against the restrained suspect who was not resisting, the arrest report failed to mention the overzealous officer's actions.

Police officer reassigned after insulting dead teen in video

As the patrol car drove next to the ATV, Bessner violated department policy by firing his Taser at the teenager.

Two police officers charged with illegally selling more than 100 guns

The ATF previously issued a memorandum to Southern California police chiefs warning that sales of illegal firearms have become an “emerging problem” for officers.

The empire comes home

Counterinsurgency, policing, and the militarization of America’s cities.

Police Officer Arrested for Killing Two People in DUI Crash

Charged in a 27-count indictment, Linden Police Officer Pedro Abad was arrested on Monday after killing two people in a DUI car crash. But this isn't the first time he drove drunk.

What’s Wrong with Police in America

The U.S. needs real heroes and public safety professionals to help protect human rights. The U.S. does not need power hungry bullies trying to control the lives of citizens. It is time to make a change.

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The Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Photo: U.S. Navy

25 Years of War Was the Wrong Response to 9/11

Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies tally the trillions spent and the millions killed in the quarter century of war that followed September 11.
The California State Capitol in Sacramento, where SEIU Local 1000 has accused Governor Newsom's administration of bad-faith bargaining. Photo: Steven Pavlov, via Wikimedia Commons

California’s largest state worker union opens strike vote against Newsom administration

More than 100,000 workers will decide by October 7 after the state rejected most of the union's contract proposals.
ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations unit in Los Angeles, June 2025. Photo: DHS

American Gestapo: The Worst Takes Time But It Comes Around Fast

Barton Kunstler maps the largest ICE detention camps and the private contractors running them, and asks how far the buildup has to go before it counts as what it resembles.
The US Capitol, where Senator Bernie Sanders has convened a bipartisan briefing on AI risk for September 16. Photo: Martin Falbisoner, via Wikimedia Commons

Sanders brings AI risk researchers to a closed Senate briefing on AI danger

Geoffrey Hinton and two other AI risk researchers, but no tech executives, will address senators on September 16.
Satellite imagery of Lake Mead shows the reservoir's shrinking shoreline amid ongoing Southwest drought. Photo: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team, via Wikimedia Commons

US just had its hottest summer and hottest August on record, NOAA says

Drought now covers 59 percent of the country as the warmest year on record runs into fall.