26Norwegian police
Norwegian police banned a team of Finnish divers from a cave in 2014 after 2 people died. In secret, the divers pulled their 2 dead friends to the surface and fulfilled a promise to a widow of one man. The illegal rescue took 27 divers and 101 hours in frigid water, using about 1-ton of equipment.
27. After a Florida Highway Patrol Officer named Donna Jane Watts ticketed a Miami cop for driving in excess of 120MPH on his way to an off-duty job, she was relentlessly harassed by other officers, including finding out that her driver's license info had been accessed by 88 officers from 25 agencies over three months.
28. Two undercover agents repeatedly tried to buy marijuana at the Lagunitas Brewing Company taproom but were unable to make any busts as the generous patron's kept trying to give them the drugs for free.
29. In 1995, a retired New Orleans police officer named Antoinette Renee Frank committed an armed robbery murdering a uniformed policeman and two employees of a restaurant in the process. One employee hid in the freezer and was spared; the officer returned to "investigate" the crime, and was identified by the survivor as the shooter.
30. In 2000, an Atlanta area sheriff named Sidney Dorsey ordered a hit on a rival (Derwin Brown) that defeated him in an election. The hit was carried out by two deputies who were promised promotions.
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31Indian police
Indian police officers aren't allowed to handcuff prisoners unless they are at extreme risk of escaping. Indian Supreme Court has ruled that handcuffing is against the dignity of an unconvicted prisoner and thus violates his fundamental rights. So policemen in India just hold hands instead.
32. In 2015, the Dutch police caught cannabis growers because their house was the only one in the street without snow on the roof.
33. William H. West was the only police officer to arrest a sitting President. He arrested President Ulysses S. Grant for speeding on his horse in 1872, for which the President paid a $20 bond.
34. A police constable named Steve Hutton on 2 separate occasions, barked at fleeing criminals to trick them into thinking he had a police dog with him. It worked.
35. Starting in 2010, Washington DC police ran a fake hip-hop studio to attract criminals and record proof of their illicit deals. “Manic Enterprises” made 70 arrests, snagged $7.2 million in cocaine, and confiscated 161 illegal weapons. Cops shut it down after they heard a gang planned on robbing the studio.
