The most egregious problems occur when police violate the rights of citizens in their homes,  automobiles, and their persons.  But police also injure citizens at protests, and violate citizens by eavesdropping on their phones or email without a warrant. Finally, one practice that has led to widespread false confessions and convictions - extreme interrogation techniques. 

At the heart of most of the problems -- are bad policies, bad laws, and a toxic anti-citizen culture. Some believe that "qualified immunity" is the most serious problem, but others contend that Terry vs. Ohio (which elevates officer safety over constitutional rights) is the biggest problem.  

Because most of the harm against citizens occurs when people are detained, focusing reform on how officers treat citizens at the time of detention and arrest - will illuminate the most serious problems.  The videos on this page discuss some of the most serious problems related to police abuse. 

Here is a summary of the most serious problems related to police abuse, violence, and corruption:

• Citizen safety and citizen's rights are subordinated below officer safety; this corrects a terrible error; we saw the consequences of this upside-down philosophy in  Uvalde, Texas.  

• Citizen's constitutional rights and safety -- are subordinated to the goal of evidence preservation; which can cause civilians to be killed by law enforcement - under the guise of preventing the destruction of evidence that may not exist. 

• Lack of national standards and practices in police work; people who have been injured in accidents, and with hearing loss, vision disability, and people who don't speak English are being injured and killed -- simply because they aren't able to perform, understand or hear verbal instructions.  This is because police have not adopted methods to detect and deal with these and other common circumstances.  In the end - citizens are harmed unnecessarily. 

• Entire police agencies retaliate against victims, witnesses, fellow officers who report police misconduct. Police agencies also retaliate against prosecutors and even internal investigation officers who investigate or prosecute misconduct. 

• Prosecutors and police are unduly motivated to win at any cost - including the use of physical violence and marathon interrogation that use unfair psychological methods to break subjects - and force confessions.

• Racial profiling targets African Americans - simply because they are Black or other minority; racial profiling is often the first phase of police abuse 

• No-knock warrants permit police SWAT teams to storm into private homes just like the military -- - kill everybody that reaches for a weapon to defend themselves. 

• Lack of independent internal affairs investigations

• City Councils & Supervisors unofficially condoning excessive use of force

• Complicity by judges, governors, mayors, commissions and other relevant officials

• Prosecutors seek "wins" even if defendants are innocent - and there are rarely any consequence - even if a person is wrongfully executed. 

• Police Unions often act as blackmail-extortion operations, supporting police who murder citizens, bullying local governments, and often opposing independent investigations, citizen review and transparency. 

• Unethical prosecutors are motivated to block new trials and legitimate investigations to find the real guilty party.

• Prosecutors generally refuse to prosecute police, and when they are forced to - they tend to sabotage their own cases in order to preserve their relationship with law enforcement. Prosecutors who go after cops are often not endorsed and targeted for harassment and retaliatory prosecution.

• Conditions that promote economic and social blight - tend to increase hopelessness and crime - triggering government responses that are ultimately destructive to the long term health of their jurisdictions. These knee-jerk reactions often target poor & minority communities, leaving trauma and distrusting citizens in the wake.  

• A general lack of respect for the sanctity of life by government in general, law enforcement specifically. This includes the life of law enforcement officers, suspects, bystanders, etc. Every person in government custody, prosecution or confinement - should be treated with the utmost respect and care - as if they were a family member. This is a human being - and should be treated with as much love and care as possible. 

• Lack of protection of personal privacy; law enforcement employees routinely violate the privacy of law abiding citizens; from unauthorized taping of phones,  to searching private property, computers and phones  - and even share sensitive data, photographs and videos with Web sites that sell confidential photos and data. 

• Poor and outdated practices for detention and investigations often lead police down the wrong path - resulting in wrongful prosecutions and cover-ups to hide the same.

• Lack of due process and respect for basic constitutional rights

• Complicity by prosecutors who refuse to hold police accountable

• Hate crimes are not investigated or prosecuted in many states 

• Complicity by city and county legal departments  - who turn a blind eye to misconduct as a policy practice. 

• Cities and Counties adopt "tough on crime" measures that encourage misconduct & prosecution of innocent people. 

• Crimes against women, minorities, children and immigrants -- are still not treated the same as crimes against White Americans. Often, these crimes aren't even documented or seriously investigated.  The disenfranchisement is so extreme - hundreds of teens in America's Olympic gymnastics team were violated for decades; and law enforcement actively covered-up the crime.

• Unauthorized surveillance, unauthorized capture, sharing & sales of private images, video and confidential information

• Police and Public Service workers perpetrate theft of private medical records, private property and evidence; there is rarely serious penalties. 

• Police are assigned cases that should be assigned to medical or social workers; cities who partner police with social workers report success

• Lack of civilian oversight, internal audits and independent investigations 

• Lack of transparency and access -- no access to police reports, records, exculpatory evidence, video evidence, police personnel files 

• White Supremacy culture inside American police agencies has created a culture of racism and hate that translates into unnecessary violence and bad will towards minorities. This is one of the top problems facing America, because many White Supremacist affiliated police are perpetrating the most serious crimes in U.S. history (Derrick Chauvin wore WS theme t-shirts and a large percentage of police prosecuted for misconduct against African Americans - have ties to WS or other hate groups). 

• Theft of pubic funds from fraudulent time reporting and overtime 

• Lack of training and resources when contacting mentally disabled & disturbed persons

• Police have too much power - such as "no-knock" warrants, tasing and pepper spraying people in their own homes, seize cash and personal property, and even the ability to lie, sexually seduce, and sell drugs legally.  Police can inject citizens with dangerous sedatives and use dangerous rubber bullets and "non-lethal" rounds against protesters. Their greatest power is the power to investigate themselves. This often results in the destruction of evidence and the sabotaging of crime scenes where police are suspected of wrongdoing.  Police unions are influencing local and state leaders and blocking measures that provide for transparency, accountability and reform.

• Police disenfranchise or red-line minority communities; denying them service - then they target these communities for undue enforcement against residents

• Lack of citizen review of local police

• Lack of Screening of police recruits

• Rogue cops are fired, then hired at another agency - where the misconduct continues 

• Improper Training - where human life of the citizen is not valued

• Lack of ongoing monitoring by FBI and independent state agencies 

• Racism, Sexism and other cultural biases are taught and reinforced in police agencies

• Difficulty lodging complaints against officers and agencies

• Investigating Complaints against officers never happens

• Lack of Independent Investigations of Use of Force

• SWATTING is out of control - where anonymous callers make false reports of a threat to harm or kill the inhabitants. Police are still not educated on how to handle these situations. 

• Connection to corrupt religious organizations, organized crime and white collar criminals

• Lack of protection for citizens and officers who are victims of institutionalized racism 

• Police have too much power to intimidate and influence prosecutors and judges

• Lack of monitoring of prosecutors, judges, important cases and defendants

• Doctrine of qualified immunity grants prosecutors, judges and other government officials immunity from civil suits - even if their mistakes cause injury, harm or death. 

• Lack of financial audits of courthouses

• Orchestrated Propaganda and Misinformation from White Supremacist Groups has influenced many in law enforcement. 

• Existing Civil Rights groups do not talk with each other, work with each other - even when they agree.

No Citizen Left Behind will seek to recommend solutions and improvements to all the above listed problems, and will establish a research-based knowledge on the causes and most effective solutions. We will draft recommendations for national standards to be implemented in training guidelines and legislation , city and county police standards and practices.