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Federal Court Allows Protesters’ First Amendment Suit Against Violent Boston Cops To Continue
18 July 2022
A lawsuit filed by four protesters against three Boston police officers can move forward, following a federal judge’s determination that the cops’ counterarguments were too ridiculous to...
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Massachusetts Court Says No Expectation Of Privacy In Social Media Posts Unwittingly Shared With An Undercover Cop
22 February 2022
Can cops pretend to be real people on social media to catfish people into criminal charges? Social media services say no. Facebook in particular has stressed --...
First Circuit Tears Into Boston PD's Bullshit Gang Database While Overturning A Deportation Decision
9 February 2022
A federal court has delivered a rebuke of police gang databases in, of all things, a review of a deportation hearing.
As we've been made painfully aware, gang databases are...
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Police Caught Stealing Money from Innocent People To Secretly Buy Tech to Spy on Citizens’ Cellphones
8 January 2022
For decades now, federal government and their cohorts in law enforcement have been carrying out theft of the citizenry on a massive scale. We’re not talking about taxes, but an...
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Boston Police Department Used Forfeiture Funds To Hide Purchase Of Surveillance Tech From City Reps
3 January 2022
Asset forfeiture is just cops going shopping for things they want. The analogy -- one prompted by statements made by Sean McMurty, the head of a county forfeiture unit in New...
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"... Boston police spent $627,000 on this equipment by dipping into money seized in connection with alleged crimes."
In other words, steal from the citizens, then spend the money on "spy tech" so you can find more stuff to steal.
Boston police bought spy tech with a pot of money hidden from...
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Massachusetts Supreme Court Being Asked To Decide Whether Cops Can Engage In Warrantless Surveillance Of Social Media Users
23 September 2021
The top court in Massachusetts is asking itself (and legal counsel representing both sides) questions that -- on the surface level -- don't really...