Police Accountability

A split Eleventh Circuit panel refused to unwind $20 million in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages against Officer Jon Grubbs after he fired a Taser into Jerry…

Chad Essert resigned as Bethel, Ohio police chief effective July 9 after a June 11 indictment on 70 felony counts from his years as a teacher and Young Marines instructor.…

A Baldwin County judge sent Jacob Marcus Clifford's case to a grand jury after January 2026 preliminary hearings. The Mobile PD homicide detective faces four counts of sexual abuse of…

Michael Broady of Reform, Alabama, called 911 in August 2021 and died after a multi-agency arrest. Judge Annemarie Carney Axon dismissed settled claims against Kallenna Homan and Austin Moss on…

Fifteen former detainees sued Spokane County in October 2025 over alleged guard abuse at the juvenile detention center from 1983 to 2010. The named officers are dead. The county is…

Introduction Allegations of police misconduct and wrongful imprisonment sit at the heart of the account given by Enzo Vincenzi, a former North Fort Myers, Florida resident who says he was…

A Sharp County jury convicted former Hardy Police Chief Scott Rose on August 28, 2026, of second-degree sexual assault and furnishing alcohol to a minor. He was fined $15,000 on…

Ventura County paid $440,000 to Jaiden Perkins, the El Rey Cantina bouncer who says two off-duty deputies beat him after he stopped Dylan Davis from choking his wife. A judge…

Cody and Kylie Scott each pleaded guilty on March 6, 2026, to one count of neglect of a dependent after forcing a 6-year-old to stand outside in 18-degree weather holding…

On November 19, 2024, a Northbridge, Massachusetts, animal-control officer answering a coyote complaint shot Kirk Rumford's 11-month husky, Odin. Chief Tim Labrie said it was a mistaken identity and that…