misconduct

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...

March 6, 2017– (Fault Lines) Anyone who has ever been to a sporting event in a coliseum or other large venue is aware of the pandemonium that ensues when thousands of people are all trying to...

March 2, 2017 (Fault Lines) — Is there something that’s more dangerous, that looks worse for America’s law enforcement, than when it plays the dangerous shell game of “gypsy cops,” in which officers who’ve committed serious...

Judge Lisa Richette was a sensitive soul. Reportedly, a pretty defense-friendly one too. Local lawyers would waive their right to a jury trial in front of her, hoping for a more favorable outcome. And this did...

March 1, 2017 (Fault Lines) — Prosecutors may be investigating if a corrupt Chicago cop tainted other convictions, as the headline for the article explains, but they’d have to be the stupidest bunch of prosecutors on...

March 1, 2017 (Fault Lines) — When you hear the term “elder abuse,” one might think of a caretaker milking a centenarian’s finances, or leaving them to fester in ulcerous bed sores, maybe neglect. You do...

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 27, 2017 (Fault Lines) – When it comes to law enforcement scandals, America’s Second City always manages to outdo itself. Chicago’s (wo)men in blue are constantly in the headlines facing allegations of misconduct, perjury, and just...

February 27, 2017 (Fault Lines) – On April 21, 1997, a Loomis-Fargo armored-car driver, James Day, was shot in the back of the head outside a Memphis Walgreens where he’d just picked up a bag of...

February 22, 2017 (Fault Lines) — Good prosecutors are guided by their conscience. And bad ones are guided by their pride, ambition, and the slight chance of professional consequences if they stray outside the lines. Like...