Man’s minivan rammed, man arrested at gunpoint with his 3 kids in the back for an improper lane change.

Ryan Frederick was convicted of voluntary manslaughter on Thursday. He shot a police officer in self defense when the police, who failed to identify themselves in a “drug raid” (they didn’t find any drugs), broke into his house while he was sleeping in the wee hours of the morning. The police also shot at him, but later denied it, despite the evidence of bullet holes and shells collected by the police themselves that came from police rifles, not the handgun that Ryan Frederick possessed.

Here’s a guy whose dog was shot in another police raid. The police broke into his house silently, a precaution they say was necessary because they knew that the suspect was a legal gun owner. Apparently, knocking on someone’s door and shouting, “POLICE!” is a bad idea when you know someone has a gun. Instead, the police think that they should break into a gun owner’s house silently, because they’re less likely to get shot that way? The guy was not arrested and not charge with anything.

A town of 35,000 issues 40,000 traffic citations at one red light camera in the space of a year.

Here’s another botched police raid with two dead dogs, this time on a Maryland mayor.

How about a guy who was shot in his own driveway by the police for, as far as we can tell, driving to Jack in the Box.

This is a just a very, very small handful. It is highly unlikely that the police officers in any of these cases will be brought to justice. If you want more, check out Radley Balko’s site, The Agitator. Click on the “Police Professionalism” category, which has hundreds of these sorts of stories.