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Chicago Cop With 76 Complaints Attacked Girlfriend While City Moved To Fire Him
Officer Joseph Vecchio had more misconduct complaints than any active Chicago police officer — 76 log numbers vs a department average of 3.5. COPA warned the superintendent about him in October 2025. Nothing changed. The Police Board moved to fire him in two false-report cases, one of which got an innocent man convicted. Then on August 21, 2026, he turned himself in for attacking his girlfriend, and a judge ordered him held as a “real and present threat.”
The full story of tact team 1863: 17 federal lawsuits, 90% Black drivers stopped, a wrongful conviction, an $80,000 settlement over a pretext stop, and the warning signs Chicago ignored for six years.
Why did it take 76 complaints before anyone acted? Drop your take in the comments.
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Christopher Tyler: Orangeburg Cop Charged For Punching Handcuffed Man At County Jail
Former Orangeburg Department of Public Safety officer Christopher Tyler, 35, is charged with second-degree battery after investigators say he punched a handcuffed arrestee in the face and slammed him into a brick wall twice at the Orangeburg County Detention Center. Jail cameras recorded the incident from multiple angles. Tyler was fired three days later, and SLED arrested him a month after that. He was booked into the same jail where it happened.
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Ex-Deputy Skylar Thompson Charged After 2,055 Flock Searches Of One Plate
An Indiana sheriff’s deputy searched one license plate 2,055 times over eight months — and logged every query as “city planning,” a duty he never held. A routine audit caught it, Indiana State Police investigated, and former Jackson County Deputy Skylar Thompson now faces felony official misconduct and fraud charges.
Charges are allegations. Thompson is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.
This is the latest in a pattern: a Florida deputy ran 717 searches on his estranged wife’s plate, a Texas constable ran 2,386, and a Sarasota officer tracked the mother of his child. The Institute for Justice has documented 100+ cases of police misusing plate readers nationwide.
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Federal Officer Took $60K In Bribes To Smuggle Contraband Into Prison
A federal grand jury in Florence, South Carolina indicted former FCI Bennettsville correctional officer Joseph Templeton on bribery, money laundering, and drug distribution charges. Prosecutors say he took more than $60,000 in bribes from an inmate and associates, then smuggled cellphones, tobacco, and THC into the prison — processing the items as contraband seizures before handing them out. He was first arrested in December with over $100,000 worth of contraband and narcotics in his possession. Investigators: DOJ-OIG, FBI Columbia, and the Marlboro County Sheriff’s Office.
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Undercover Cops Deceived Women For 40 Years – Prosecutors May Finally Charge 12
The UK spycops scandal may finally produce its first criminal charges. The Crown Prosecution Service is examining a file of evidence on 12 former undercover officers — including Mark Kennedy, who infiltrated more than 1,000 political groups while living as “Mark Stone” — over relationships with women they spied on. This video traces how the scandal unfolded: the fake identity of Mark Stone, Kate Wilson’s landmark tribunal victory, Helen Steel and the £2.5 million the Met spent hiding her former partner, and the admission that police monitored the family of Stephen Lawrence.
After three no-charge decisions (2014, 2018, 2023), this is the first time the evidence file reaches prosecutors with the officers’ own conduct in view. Kate Wilson’s lawyer called it “unprecedented.”
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Federal Indictment: Ex-Arizona Tribal Officer Accused Of Punching Handcuffed Man, Faking Report
A federal grand jury has indicted Jacob Christopher Slawson, 29, a former officer with the San Carlos Apache Police Department in Arizona, on two federal counts: deprivation of rights under color of law (18 U.S.C. 242) and falsification of records (18 U.S.C. 1519).
According to the indictment, after an arrestee was handcuffed and secured in the back of a police vehicle, Slawson punched him in the face, knocking him unconscious, then pulled him from the vehicle, causing severe head injuries on the concrete. When Slawson learned he was under investigation for excessive force, prosecutors allege he falsified a fellow detective’s report with the intent to obstruct the investigation.
He faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted on both counts. The San Carlos Apache Police Department says it opened an internal investigation, cooperated fully with the FBI, and states Slawson was dismissed before completing his probationary period for unrelated policy violations. The department is now reviewing its policies and procedures.
The case was announced by the DOJ Civil Rights Division, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona, and the FBI Phoenix Field Office.
An indictment is merely an allegation. The defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
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Major Robbie Silas Arrested By GBI As Officials Hid His Face With Blankets
Major Robbie Silas, 59, of the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office in Augusta, Georgia was arrested by GBI agents and booked into the Wilkes County jail on pandering, solicitation for sodomy, and violation of oath by a public officer charges. When he was escorted out Tuesday morning, jail staff held blankets up to hide his face from news cameras.
Silas commanded the Special Operations Division and once ran for sheriff. GBI served a search warrant at his Hephzibah home; reporting says the case involves a male tenant who rents from him.
The same week, RCSO Investigator Sean Morrow and Deputy Jose Ferrer were arrested for searching license plates through plate readers for personal reasons, and were fired. Per 2023 NBC reporting, 33 RCSO employees were arrested in three years.
What’s your take on the blanket treatment? Drop it in the comments.
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Little Rock Officer Put Gun To Unarmed Man’s Head
He was face down. He was complying. And Officer Thomas Shook pressed his muzzle to the back of his head.
Little Rock police responded to a gas station on South University Ave on August 9 after Gregory Williams, 23, allegedly threatened a store clerk. Williams complied with arrest. But bodycam footage obtained by KATV shows Shook pinning him prone and pressing his firearm against the back of his head.
The arrest report never mentioned the gun-to-head contact. The clerk declined to press charges.
Thirteen days later, Channel 7 obtained the raw footage. Shook was relieved of duty. Mayor Frank Scott Jr. called the footage disturbing. Nonviolence advocates are demanding transparency as the internal investigation continues.
Note: police were responding to a real call — Williams had threatened the clerk. The question isn’t why they were there. It’s what Shook did once the man was already down.
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Mississippi Police Chief Harold Vanderford Fired Over Racist Texts
Senatobia, Mississippi Police Chief Harold Vanderford was fired September 1 after the Mayor and Board of Aldermen REJECTED his resignation. A week earlier, the same board called his responses to a racist text message scandal “sincere” and expressed full confidence in him.
Mississippi Today, co-publishing with Verite News and the New York Times, published his private messages in August: a racial slur used more than a dozen times, including a message boasting he had almost beaten two people minutes earlier. The texts ran from summer 2025 to after he was sworn in as chief.
The texts surfaced while the department was already under scrutiny over the June incident that took the life of one-year-old Kohen Wiley at a Senatobia Walmart. Ben Crump represents the Wiley family.
Why did the board refuse his resignation? So the firing would go on the record.
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