By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two Chicago cops find themselves on the wrong side of the law. The feds in Chicago on Monday announced that they had charged Sgt. Ronald Watts and officer Kallatt Mohammed with stealing $5,200 from someone they thought was transporting money for drug dealers, but who was actually an informant working for…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com And now for one of those black eyes that all police departments hate. Reuters reports that 8 New York cops were arrested Tuesday on fed charges for allegedly helping run a run a gun-smuggling ring in the city. Four others were also charged in the case. Reuters reported that the U.S….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Associated Press has obtained confidential documents that show the New York cops collected intelligence on more than 250 mosques and Muslim student groups in and around New York. AP reported that the department used undercover officers and informants to canvas the Islamic population of New York. AP wrote that the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal jury on Friday convicted five current and former New Orleans cops in the case involving the cover-up and shooting of six unarmed civilians on Danziger Bridge days after Katrina devastated the area, WWL TV reported. Two of the people died. The station reported that defendants Kenneth Bowen, Robert Gisevius,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — No body armor, no cash. That’s what the Justice Department is saying. USA Today reports that the Justice Department is threatening to withhold millions of federal dollars from local police departments that don’t require uniformed officers to wear body armor. The threats come in wake of a spike in…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News Depending how you look at it, Miami federal prosecutor Sean Cronin landed in hot water when his privates went public. Or when he first plunged into a cool pool at a watering hole wearing just his boxer shorts. Whatever the case, one thing led to another on Sunday afternoon…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Another reminder of the lawlessness in Mexico reared its ugly head Monday when at least 10 federal police officers were killed and more than a dozen wounded in an ambush in an area a major drug organization calls home, the Los Angeles Times reported. The paper reported that the attacks took…
