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Articles by Bill Trine

Police State: How America’s Cops Get Away with Murder (Book Review)

Police State: How America’s Cops Get Away with Murder, by Gerry Spence
(St. Martin’s Press, 2015). 338 pages, hard cover. $19.40

Book review by Bill Trine

In recent years, the American public has witnessed shocking videos, taken by cell phones with video cameras, of citizens brutalized and killed by the …

The Genesis of Increasing Incidents of Police Brutality: The War on Drugs

The Genesis of Increasing Incidents of Police Brutality: The War on Drugs

By Bill Trine

What is the cause of the spiraling increase in police assaults on people whom they should help to protect --- not brutalize or kill? In just the month of March, 2015, American police killed 111 …

Colorado Restraint Board Death Case Settled

by Bill Trine, esq.

A§ 1983 civil rights lawsuit and medical/healthcare negligence lawsuit was brought by the mother of 54 year old Michael Lewis, who died on May 7, 1998, after being placed on a "restrainer board" while incarcerated as a pre-trial detainee at the El Paso County Criminal Justice …