A 17-year-old kid says he was beaten by cops in the Bronx after he walked past an officer who was scraping dog shit off his shoe and said, "It smells like doo-doo." Tyre Davis told the Daily News that he was then berated by the cops, handcuffed and later punched several times in the head. Who wouldn't laugh if they saw a cop step in dog shit?

Horrible news for all of you criminals who already have Two Strikes and would really, really prefer not to get a third: the Supreme Court ruled yesterday that fleeing the police in a car is, by definition, a "violent felony."

Two women who served on the jury that acquitted New York police officers Kenneth Moreno and Franklin Mata of charges that Moreno had raped a drunk woman while Mata stood guard say they believe that Moreno is guilty.

Yesterday, NYPD officers Kenneth Moreno and Franklin Mata were acquitted of charges of raping a drunk woman in her East Village apartment. It was... a shocker, for sure. Here's the latest on the day after:

Two New York City police officers disciplined for "hooker trouble" are apparently being investigated in relation to the murders of four prostitutes whose bodies turned up on a Long Island beach earlier this year.

Stern NYC schoolmarm-in-chief Mike Bloomberg is trying to crack down on the practice of NYPD officers making tickets disappear as a favor to friends. Clearly, this is an outrageous assault on the police. Why does Mike Bloomberg hate courtesy?

While it's still, obviously, legal to watch cops ticket a cyclist for riding his bike on the sidewalk, we recommend not cracking any jokes—even at the cyclist's expense—because then you might get arrested. As this gentleman learned.

Officer Aaron Hess, the Pleasantville, N.Y. police officer who shot and killed 20-year-old Pace University student Danroy Henry following an altercation at a local bar last year, has been named "Officer of the Year." Now, now—he's not getting the award because he killed Danroy Henry, though, gosh, we can see why it seems that way! No, he's receiving it "for his dignity and professionalism since the October shooting and throughout his career." In fairness, Hess was cleared of criminal wrongdoing by a grand jury, despite accusations that the shooting wasn't justified; on the other hand, the Pleasantville Police Benevolent Association might not want to, at this particular moment in time, run headfirst into the Henry family's accusations of insensitivity and arrogance. [Boston Globe]

Police in Colorado were called to an elementary school to handle a violent second-grader who had "broke wood trim off the walls and was trying to stab teachers." So they did what any good cops would: They pepper sprayed him.

John Thompson (pictured) was convicted of a 1984 armed robbery, and later of murder. He spent 18 years in prison, including 14 years on death row. Problem: the prosecutors who sent him to jail withheld some evidence—including eyewitness reports describing a perpetrator who looked nothing like Thompson, and a blood test that proved Thompson's innocence.

Miami! A town where you can stroll through South Beach in fashionable clothing, or—if you happen to be a black male—you can be shot by the police. Either/ or.

In Bell, California, America's Most Corrupt Little Town, the police department's role was to 1) Help the "disabled" distance-runner police chief as he took all of the city's money; and 2) To find new ways to steal from the poor.

Click to viewAn attempted drug raid in Philadelphia ended badly on Wednesday night when a police officer entered the wrong home and shot and killed a dog that had bitten him on the ankle. It's hard to blame the officer for shooting an attacking dog (or the dog for attacking an intruder), but one would hope that when armed police are executing raids they could at least get the address right. [NBC10; video below]

The NYPD stopped (and often frisked) 600,000 New Yorkers last year, an all-time high since recordkeeping began in 2002. What percentage of those stops led to an arrest? Seven. Seven percent. The other 93% of the time, the people were not arrested. Because they were not committing any crime. Although they were stopped by the police.

Remember that Los Angeles school police officer who was shot in the chest last week, prompting a several-school lockdown? They drew up a composite sketch, offered a $100,000 reward? Yeah, that was a "hoax". But a hilarious one!

The LAPD is defending two of its officers, one of whom shot and killed an unarmed naked man, claiming self defense. The police union said cops have previously been "killed by naked people … who disarmed the officer."

Police in England conducted a raid on a garage suspected of containing heating systems for growing marijuana. Alas! It was just a heater for two cold guinea pigs. Poor cops! I would be disappointed, too, but probably for different reasons.

Here's a video of an off-duty St. Louis police officer beating and pepper-spraying a man at a gas station. ("It looks bad," says the mayor.) Elsewhere, a study is questioning whether drug-sniffing dogs even work. Is probable cause dead?

John Harmon, a diabetic who owns a marketing company, was pulled over after low blood sugar levels made him swerve into another lane. The sheriff's deputies smashed his window, Tasered him, and charged him with resisting arrest. Now he's suing.

East Haven, Conn., is a quiet suburb of New Haven with a "peaceful, small-town setting and thriving businesses." Unless you are Latino, in which case it's the place where you're targeted with "traffic stops, false arrests and even jailhouse beatings."