March 7, 2017 (Fault Lines) – In Texas, to be a cop, you have to be licensed by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE). If you lose that license, no one can hire you to...

February 28, 2017 (Fault Lines) – On August 15, 2006, 17-year-old single mother Candace Hiltz was found dead, shot five times in the back with a small-caliber pistol, once in the chest with a medium-caliber pistol,...

February 24, 2017 (Fault Lines) – On Tuesday, February 21st, an unidentified off-duty Los Angeles Police officer attempted to detain a 13-year-old Latino, Christian Dorscht, for allegedly threatening to shoot the officer in response to something...

February 21, 2017 (Fault Lines) – We’ve run a number of stories on people filming police buildings and the reaction of police to those individuals. I think that it is basically baiting the police, but to...

February 14, 2017 (Fault Lines) – In January of 2011, six years ago, Chicago Police Officer Raoul Mosqueda, along with Officer Gildardo Sierra, shot and killed Darius Pinex. Last week, Mosqueda was promoted to field training...

February 7, 2017 (Fault Lines) – When President Trump issued his Executive Order on Immigration, it got the attention of a lot of people, including quite a few here at Fault Lines. Caleb Kruckenberg wrote about...

January 31, 2017 (Fault Lines) – In 2010, Customs & Border Protection Officer Jose Rodriguez-Elizondo shot and killed Fermin Limon, Sr., 49, outside of the nightclub that Limon owned. In 2011, Elizondo was convicted of murder...

January 27, 2017 (Fault Lines) – On September 15, 2016, Lowell, Massachusetts Police Officer Dave Pender suspected a 16-year-old student of possessing marijuana. Or, more accurately, the school officials where Pender was a School Resource Officer...

January 24, 2017 (Fault Lines) – Last week, Galveston Police Sergeant Archie Chapman was acquitted of criminal charges arising from his contact and arrest of a photography activist. On November 4, 2015, photography activist, Phillip Turner,...

January 17, 2017 (Fault Lines) – On June 19, 2016, David Desjardins, Jr. was intoxicated at a bar in Agawam, Massachusetts, to the point that the bartender refused to serve. As is normal in these types...