September 21, 2011 - COR-SPEC-OPS

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke recently announced preemptive force is the new policy for corrections officers in Milwaukee County. The "strike first before being struck" stance comes after five correctional officers were assaulted and injured over the weekend.

Officers will be looking for the usual indicators that lead to attacks such as belligerence, cursing and swearing at an officer. Those things will now be viewed as an act of aggression.

September 15, 2011- The Washington Post

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois Supreme Court justices challenged prosecutors Thursday about the strength of their evidence in the rape conviction of a man who says he was tortured into confessing by Chicago police officers.

September 8, 2011 - The New York Times

WASHINGTON — In a blistering condemnation of the second-largest police force in the United States, the Justice Department is accusing the Puerto Rico Police Department of a “profound” and “longstanding” pattern of civil rights violations and other illegal practices that have left it “broken in a number of critical and fundamental respects.”

August 27, 2011 - Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center

With 49,000 inmates in August, the Illinois prison system has reached 147 percent of its rated capacity. The prison population has grown by 4,000 since Democratic Governor Pat Quinn cancelled an early release program last year.

August 10, 2011 - Chicago Sun-Times

Former Gov. Jim Thompson, former U.S. Sen. Adlai Stevenson III and other legal and political heavyweights are asking the Illinois Supreme Court to order hearings into claims by prisoners that they were tortured by former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge and his detectives.

August 10, 2011 - Chicago Tribune

Decision means former mayor can be deposed in police torture lawsuit

A federal judge has ruled that former Mayor Richard M. Daley can be sued for alleged police brutality conspiracies that happened under former Chicago police Cmdr. Jon Burge.

July 25, 2011 - KRQE News

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) - Albuquerque police officers now have taser shotguns in their arsenal.

For now, only the SWAT team and officers in the special investigations division have the X12 taser shotguns.

The new tool packs a pretty mean punch. Continue reading...

July 23, 2011 - Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago Police officers have shot 40 people this year, nearly as many as in all of 2010.

No one knows for sure why police-involved shootings are up.

But Officer Danny O’Toole — who killed a suspect in 2009 and was wounded in a shootout just two weeks later — thinks he knows why. Continue reading...

July 19, 2011 - PRNewswire

CHARLOTTE, N.C.- Attorneys John Burton and Peter M. Williamson announce that at 2:30 p.m. EDT today, a federal court jury returned a verdict for wrongful death in the amount of $10,000,000.00 against TASER International Inc., for the wrongful death of 17-year-old Darryl Turner, who collapsed and died in a Charlotte, North Carolina supermarket on March 20, 2008, following shocks to the chest from a TASER Model X26 electronic control device.

June 18, 2011 - Better Government Association, Center for Wrongful Convictions