Police Misconduct facts

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In 1991 Isaac Wright Jr. was wrongfully convicted of being a drug kingpin in New Jersey and sentenced to life in prison. While in prison, he studied law to pursue his own appeal and extracted a confession of police misconduct from the detective responsible for his conviction, exonerating Wright.

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In 1992, police rioted at a rally called by the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association to protest NYC Mayor's proposal to create an independent civilian agency that would look into police misconduct

What is considered police misconduct?

In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what are the different types of police misconduct. Here are 12 of the best facts about Police Misconduct Laws and Police Misconduct Lawyers I managed to collect.

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1. Chicago has paid $662 million on police misconduct since 2004

2. Deprivation of civil rights under Color of Law, the "Police Misconduct Statute," constituted 42% of DOJ's civil rights cases in 2012.

3. The CATO institute, a libertarian think tank founded by Charles Koch, has been actively tracking nationwide police misconduct since 2009 and fighting against police militarization since before 9/11.

4. The Blue Code of Silence: used in the United States to denote the unwritten rule that exists among police officers not to report on a colleague's errors, misconducts, or crimes.

5. The City of Baltimore has paid out $5.7 million for Police Misconduct from 2011-2014. Enough to "cover the price of a state-of-the-art rec center or renovations at more than 30 playgrounds."

6. Adrian Schoolcraft won $600,000 after suing his PD for his forced hospitalization and arrest that arose after he secretly recorded superiors and reported serious police misconduct

7. Misconduct among police officers isn't necessarily the epidemic everyone thinks it is.

8. Since 2004, Chicago has spent over $500,000,000 in police misconduct lawsuits.

9. R/todayilearned doesn't allow posts related to "police misconduct"

10. We are not allowed to submit posts in R/todayilearned about police misconduct nor are we allowed to post videos of police brutality in R/videos.