Police say that a woman was so desperate to get out of a traffic stop that she called in a fake report of a gunman at a convenience store across the street in the hopes that the police officer who pulled her over would rush to the "scene".

Police say an on-duty rural Alaskan cop got drunk and sent dozens of sexually charged text messages to a 12-year-old girl from a governmental cell phone.

Oakland, California, is both the robbery capital of America and one of the country's most expensive places to live. In acknowledgement of this dystopian situation, BART police will escort you and your holiday gifts from the train station to your car. Or, they may shoot you for no reason at all.

You might think that a police officer would face charges for using his cruiser to T-bone a suspect's car, then pushing his trained attack dog into the driver's window while he raises his arms to give himself up. You might think that.

Last night in Brooklyn, two New York City transit cops stationed at a subway station at Lewis and Broadway in Bed-Stuy heard pounding above them. They walked up to the street to find a man with a cane banging on their patrol car. The two cops approached the man, who swung at them, striking one in the face. The other — naturally, because how else would two people subdue a man who requires the use of a cane — shot the man to the ground. He was taken to the hospital, as were the cops. Take a guess which of three will make it out of the hospital last.

A Los Angeles County judge and former police commission president who was handcuffed, locked in a UCLA police cruiser, and detained for resisting arrest this weekend has turned around and sued the UCLA police force for using excessive force.

This is an MRAP, a mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicle. It didn't exist until well into the Iraq War, when we went to war with the Army we had, and that Army's Humvees didn't survive very well. We bought a lot of MRAPs. The Iraq War is over. Now, how many of these MRAPs can we put your police down for?

Late last month, the NYPD was embarrassed when cops allegedly threw a man in jail for a day after mistaking his Jolly Ranchers for meth. But not every innocent interaction with the NYPD has to end in a cell. According to a new lawsuit, sometimes New York City cops are willing to let people who have committed no crimes go in exchange for an impromptu rap performance.

Sonoma County sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a 13-year-old boy Tuesday as he was walking down the street carrying a toy rifle in Santa Rosa, Calif.

The New York Daily News is reporting this morning that a local teen is suing the NYPD and Barneys after he was handcuffed and detained for buying an expensive belt that police officers couldn't believe a "young, black male" like him could afford.

On Oct. 14, Bobby Gerald Bennett of Dallas, 59, of Dallas, Texas began acting erratically. While Bennett sat in a swivel chair in the middle of the cul de sac holding a knife, his mother, Joyce Jackson, called the police and asked the dispatcher to send officers who were trained in dealing with the mentally ill.

When 20-year-old New York photographer Shay Horse dropped by his first Occupy Wall Street march on May 23rd, 2012, a friendly fellow protester approached him and started making small talk. "He just asked me what my name was, what my involvement was, pretty general stuff," Horse says. From then on, Horse ran into the protestor, whom he knew only knew as "Al," at practically every Occupy Wall Street event. He even invited him to his birthday party. But it turns out "Al" was actually an undercover cop, 32 year-old NYPD detective Wojciech Braszczok.

A DeLand, Florida, police officer who was fired after running over and killing a fleeing suspect named Marlon Brown will not be charged with vehicular manslaughter. Brown's family hopes this video might somehow change that ruling.

General David Petraeus' rocky first days as a lecturer at the City University of New York only got rockier this week. Six CUNY student were arrested on Tuesday while protesting outside Macaulay Honors College, where Petraeus holds his classes. Now their supporters are saying that police unnecessarily roughed the students up during their arrest, and video footage seems to support that claim.

Mark Kessler, the Pennsylvania police chief who recently filmed a video in which he said, "Fuck all you libtards!" while wearing a shirt that read, "Liberals take it in the ass," is reportedly on the chopping block in his small town of Gilberton. The AP reports that Gilberton officials "intend" to can Kessler, a gun enthusiast who once shot himself in the hand while off-duty in a bar. Kessler, who was also accused of improperly using a state program to get discount tires for his car and badmouthing other officials, said this decision is "no surprise."

With Washington's marijuana legalization initiative still in the process of taking effect, police in the state's largest city are doing their part to educate partakers — by doling out hundreds of bags of Doritos at Seattle's annual Hempfest.

After yesterday's ruling that stop-and-frisk is unconstitutional, StreetsBlog looks at the "virulent" culture of NYPD cops, who sometimes say things like this: "We own the block. They don’t own the block, all right? They might live here but we own the block. ... We own the streets here. You tell them what to do."

Miami Beach police today extended their condolences to the family of Israel Hernandez, an 18-year-old who died after cops Tasered him for tagging a building and fleeing.

An investigation into what witnesses initially described as a violent robbery perpetrated by two men impersonating Detroit police officers has led to the arrest of two actual police officers, both long-time veterans of Michigan police departments. The reported reason for the crime? The recovery of a cell phone stolen from one of the police officer's daughter.

A stripper just won a lawsuit against Nebraska police who confiscated over $1,000,000 in $10,000 bundles tied with hair ties after a routine traffic stop.