New Details About Louisiana Resident Victor White III’s Shooting Challenge Police Account

Donald Kaufman / Truthdig Aug 26, 2014 How did 22-year-old African-African man Victor White III manage to shoot himself in March while handcuffed and in the back of a deputy's car parked at the New Iberia, La., sheriff's station? Turns out an official report released that month by Louisiana State Police may not have told the whole story about his death. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Lee Baca to Step Down From L.A. County Sheriff Post

Staff / Truthdig Jan 8, 2014 After 48 years in the department, L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca is hanging up his hat at the end of January as federal probes continue into allegations of prisoner abuse in local jails and racial discrimination in an area over which his office presides. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Louisiana’s Incarceration Is a Private Business

Donald Kaufman / Truthdig Jan 5, 2014 Louisiana has assailed its residents to a level unequal to any other state, entering the new year with another signature No. 1 ranking in lockups. It has created a system more efficient and despondent than state run prisons or regular privatization. The costs are low, profits high and human life is a commodity that allows the market to keep growing.Louisiana has created a system more efficient and despondent than state run prisons or regular privatization. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Minorities on Receiving End of Vast Majority of L.A. County Canine Unit Bites

BLANK Oct 11, 2013 Minorities in recent years have been the disproportionate target of police dogs used by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, but a new special counsel's report found that for the first six months of this year, all arrest suspects bitten by Sheriff's Department police dogs were African-American or Latino. And the dogs are deployed at an overwhelmingly higher rate in poor neighborhoods than in wealthy ones. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

ACLU Cites Abuses, Demands L.A. County Sheriff Step Down

Staff / Truthdig Sep 29, 2011 The ACLU has demanded the resignation of Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca after the civil rights organization issued a report that he had willfully ignored a growing culture of violence and abuse by jail deputies against inmates. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Memo Accuses Sheriff Arpaio of Wrongdoing

Staff / Truthdig Sep 18, 2010 Never mind Joe Arpaio's amazingly xenophobic and illegal policing practices concerning immigrants: An internal memo in the Maricopa County's sheriff's office is alleging that “America's Toughest Sheriff” helped conduct politically motivated investigations and surveilled Arpaio's own campaign rivals. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Sun Sets on Anti-Immigration Sheriff

Staff / Truthdig Oct 9, 2009 Joe Arpaio, a sheriff in Arizona known for his rabid anti-immigration stance and poor treatment of undocumented immigrants in his custody, has finally lost the federal power to enforce immigration law -- a power reserved for federal agents, not county sheriffs. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Creepy’ Karl Rove on Meghan McCain’s Twitter Trail

Staff / Truthdig Apr 21, 2009 You know a social networking trend has gone too far when: (1) Karl Rove has caught on, and (2) Karl Rove attempts to "friend" you -- or, in Meghan McCain's unenviable case, follow you on Twitter. Ew. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )