The Daily Populous

Wednesday December 6th, 2023 morning edition

image for Alabama officer on leave after video shows her using stun gun on man who is handcuffed

An Alabama police officer is on leave after a video posted on social media showed her cursing at and using a stun gun on a man who was handcuffed and crying.

The video begins with a handcuffed man lying in the street as an officer with the Reform Police Department tells him to stand up.

The officer then walks the man over to a car, the video shows.

"Stay still," the officer says as she pushes him against the hood of the car and holds her stun gun to his back.

As the officer removes the gun from the man's pants, she laughs and says, "Oh yeah!".

The officer responds by using her stun gun on the man, the video shows.

An officer with the Reform, Ala., Police Department is on administrative leave after she was caught on camera using a stun gun on a handcuffed man. »

Detroit on pace to have lowest homicide rate in 60 years this year

Authored by fox2detroit.com

A partnership to reduce Detroit crime is being praised with the City on pace for the fewest homicides in 60 years.

The coalition which includes city and county leaders that Detroit Police Chief James White formed in late 2021 to return the criminal justice system in Detroit and Wayne County to pre-Covid operations.

To get it done, White targeted key areas like reducing the felony gun case backlog. »