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Many videos, from Rodney King onwards, have captured the physical violence of police brutality. Rarer is a video that captures the psychological trauma of someone suffering a complete emotional breakdown in the face of police harassment.

New York mayor Bill de Blasio has announced that the city will end its appeal of a ruling against the NYPD's stop and frisk policy. If everything goes according to plan, slightly fewer minorities will be harassed by cops in New York City in the near future.

Every year, the New York Police Department steals millions of dollars from poor New Yorkers. The code governing this ability was written in 1881, and ruled unconstitutional twice—and yet the seizures are still happening. Former Gawker weekend editor Max Rivlin-Nadler takes a look at the NYPD's civil forfeiture industry.

Here you will see a video showing several Seabrook, NH police officers slamming a prisoner in their custody into a wall and pepper spraying him for no apparent reason.

Playboy asks NYPD boss Ray Kelly about political critics of his stop-and-frisk policy: "Do you think they were just full of shit?" "Absolutely," Kelly says. Then he talks about how black teens in Harlem love him.

New York City Police officers fired more rounds, shot more people, and were shot themselves more in 2012 than in the previous year. Mayor Bloomberg can proudly go out on a violent note.

Whether or not Kim Nguyen wins her lawsuit against the LAPD, we can all agree that being ejected from a moving police car while wearing handcuffs is a poor way to end a night out. [Los Angeles Times]

A federal judge has ruled that the NYPD's infamous stop-and-frisk practice "violated the constitutional rights of tens of thousands of New Yorkers"—but didn't order the NYPD to end the policy immediately.

Cop Selfies is a blog of cop selfies. Sometimes the watchmen watch themselves.

The entertainment at the LA Sheriff's Department "Sheriffs Day Luncheon" yesterday was a stand-up comedian who reportedly told lots of racist jokes, and then received a plaque of appreciation from the LA Sheriff. Yes? And? Sounds like they chose the entertainment perfectly.

Echoing New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's recent statement on the subject, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a radio interview today that, as far as he sees it, blacks and Latinos are actually not being stopped enough under the city's racist stop-and-frisk program.

A newly released 2011 report from the CIA's inspector general reveals that the CIA embedded four officers inside the NYPD's intelligence division after 9/11. The CIA, of course, is not allowed to spy on Americans. And they didn't, according to the CIA!

Armed with tear gas, water cannons, and rubber bullets, Turkish police moved in on Taksim Square early Tuesday morning, preparing to clear the area of the anti-government protestors who have occupying it for over a week.

I got my black shirt on. I got my black gloves on. I got my ski mask on. This shit's been too long. COP ANNOYER, better you than me! COP ANNOYER, fuck police tranquility!

Thousands of protesters camped out in Istanbul's Gezi Park to save what they say is the last public green space in the city were greeted with tear gas and pepper spray today when police arrived.

The LAPD is now formally free of federal oversight, so... everyone stay in the house.

Young black men in New York City—every single one of whom, statistically speaking, was stopped and frisked in 2011—will be pleased to learn that they, and the African-American population as a whole, is actually "understopped," by NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly's tally.

The NYPD's public safety policy of "Harass all young minority males who show themselves in public," politely dubbed "Stop and frisk," is currently on trial for its legal life. Hilariously (unless you are a young minority male), police officials are still able to insist with a straight face that such a program does not constitute "racial profiling." Hey, let's roll that tape, recorded by an NYPD officer who was being berated by his superior!

For six months, a new lawsuit alleges, Chau Van (pictured), was one of Oakland's "most wanted criminals," according to the Oakland Police Department. The only problem? He wasn't actually wanted for anything—even though his name and photograph were published on a KTVU feature about Oakland's most wanted.