Cops Behaving Badly, January 26th.

A few more items while I catch up.

• The Barton County, Kansas Sheriff's Dept. Charming fellows.
• The gullibility of Nassau County and New York City law enforcement officials.
• An eighth-grader in Brownsville, Texas, was shot to death by police officers after brandishing a pellet gun in a hallway in his school.
• The latest in the War on Cameras.
• An Alabama minister has sued the Shelby County, Tennessee, Drug Enforcement Task Force after having a warrant mistakenly issued for his arrest on a drug charge, along with his photo being posted on a sheriff's most wanted list.
• A high-ranking RCMP officer in Merritt, BC, is facing theft charges for ( allegedly ) stealing seized cocaine on more than one occasion.
• A Virginia state trooper essentially performs highway robbery...and seems to get away with it.
• More on that drug raid gone wrong in Ogden, Utah.
• According to a federal court filing, more than 500 people have been wrongly imprisoned in Denver, Colorado over the past seven years.
• More on the story of Tina Funderburk, who was caught up in legal limbo for over eight years in Hinds County, Mississippi: in jail on murder charges, but not likely to see the inside of a courtroom because of criminal insanity. A judge has finally transferred Ms. Funderburk's case out of a criminal court, which means that she can now be committed to a mental hospital.
• The latest in the War on Canines.
• The many crimes of former Memphis, Tennessee MPD officer Norman Benjamin. 
• Ian Birk, a former Seattle police officer who resigned after shooting and killing Vancouver Island, BC resident John T. Williams while still on duty in August of 2010, will not face civil rights charges.