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A policy guided by District Attorney Sandra Doorley has hobbled the Police Accountability Board's pursuit of department information. That move has made the agency close to impotent in doing investigations.

Thomas A. VanDuinen allegedly smiled into a camera as he recorded two men having sex with a teen girl.

"I fear the police (especially State Troopers) more than I do criminals. I know how to defend myself from a criminal. I am defenseless when dealing with the police.”

Who is in the wrong, the man resisting or the officer who punched him?

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office is suspending two deputies for failing to act urgently after the disappearance of Miya Marcano.

MICHIGAN GOVERNOR-KIDNAPPING PLOT

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan State Police trooper has been suspended after he allegedly used force during a traffic stop in Saginaw, the agency said Tuesday. The trooper assigned to the Tri-City Post in Freeland had pulled over a driver suspected of operating while under the influence Monday night, the agency said in a news release.

The trooper assigned to the Tri-City Post had pulled over a driver suspected of operating while under the influence, the agency said.

Indigenous youth group Braided Warriors is hoping the United Nations will step in and help them seek justice after they claim they were “brutalized” by Vancouver Police Department officers who broke up their “peaceful protest.”

  VANCOUVER -- The actions of police officers toward a group of protesters during a demonstration on Friday in Vancouver will be reviewed by a professional standards committee, says a spokesperson for the Vancouver Police Department. A video clip, which has circulated widely on social media, shows members of the Vancouver Police Department aggressively handling and pushing protesters to the ground. In one instance a police officer pulls a person by their hair. The clip appears to have been...