During this past election season, President Obama made a stop in Richmond, Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University to give a speech. Richmond Police Department were working detail alongside the Secret Service, but there were reports of inappropriate comments made by two officers about the President and his wife. An officer that wanted to remain anonymous blew…
High-ranking Dallas Police Lieutenant Regina Smith is under fire today, not for excessive force or being a dirty cop, but because of her side-hustle: rapping. Smith, who oversees burglary and theft investigative detectives, goes by the moniker “Lucille Baller” and spins lyrical tales of being a powerful woman (packing a gun) who won’t take any…
Last year, the NYPD conducted 685,724 stops of residents throughout the city. Of those numbers, 53 percent of people stopped were black, 34 percent were Latino, and just nine percent were white. Most alarming, however, is that 88 percent of those stopped and frisked by the police were totally innocent. In spite of the disparity…
When people end up dead in police custody, there are always questions. But when 21-year-old Chavis Carter was found handcuffed and shot to death in a back of a police car, many are having a hard time believing the police’s explanation. According to Jonesboro, Arkansas police, Carter was detained after police searched a car he…
