Police brutality, torture, killings & disappearances in Alaska

These articles are somewhat outdated, and much of the police brutality and corruption that has continued unabated in the meantime has gone unreported.

43 people have been killed by Alaska law enforcement officers in the last 5 1/2 years. Here’s what we learned by examining each case.

First of two parts: The Daily News set out to learn about fatal encounters between citizens and police in Alaska after learning no official statewide data existed.

Anchorage Daily NewsMichelle Theriault Boots

When Alaska police use deadly force, who holds them accountable?

State prosecutors have ruled all of the dozens of killings by police and troopers since 2015 to be justifiable homicide.

Anchorage Daily NewsMichelle Theriault Boots

The most important thing to bear in mind is that police misconduct and corruption do not respect jurisdictional or international boundaries.

City and borough police departments in Alaska are nests of endemic corruption as well as state troopers, federal law enforcement, U.S. Marshals, park rangers and military police departments.

Complicity with corrupt Russian and Canadian police forces such as FSB and RCMP also plays a very prominent role in police corruption throughout Alaska.

It seems to be the unfortunate and unescapable reality even to this day that "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants" as so sadly and cynically observed by Thomas Jefferson.

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Such is the case when officers who should have supported and upheld the law instead act as such horrible tyrants and insist so wrongfully on banding together in corrupt police unions with such a heavy-handed imposition of lawless tyranny over our lives.