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Because No One's Making Them Do It, Maine Law Enforcement Agencies Aren't Accurately Tracking Complaints Against Officers 27 January 2022 For three decades, the DOJ and FBI have barely tried (and always failed) to collect information about use of force by the nation's 18,000 law enforcement...

Kansas and California Cops Used Civil Forfeiture to Stage Armored Car Heists, Stealing Money Earned by Licensed Marijuana Businesses The Institute for Justice argues that the seizures violated state law, federal law, and the U.S. Constitution. 18 January 2022 Because the continued federal...

Sheriff’s Department encrypts radio communications; critics say the move will reduce transparency 16 January 2022 The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department last week encrypted its radio communications, blocking the public from listening to information about public safety matters in real time...

You Can't Solve Homelessness by Making It a Crime In an August ruling, Washington's Supreme Court found that a homeless plaintiff's truck qualified as his homestead. 17 January 2022 A man's car is his castle. So declared the Washington Supreme Court, more or less, when it ruled last August...

Police Misbehavior Is a Crucial Threat to Liberty Cops in Los Angeles killed a young girl in a department store dressing room by accident while firing at a suspect armed with nothing more than a bike lock. 14 January 2022 Whenever I write about police abuse and use-of-force issues, I often...

Top-down mismanagement! After the crooked cops bust them, the crooked jailers take over. "... the AP revealed that more than 100 Bureau of Prisons workers have been arrested, convicted or sentenced for crimes since the start of 2019, including a warden charged with sexually abusing an inmate."...

Baltimore Police Union Blames City's Murder Rate On Defunding Efforts That Never Happened 6 January 2022 In response to the killing of a Baltimore police officer, the head of the Baltimore police union, Mike Mancuso, has decided to accuse everyone who doesn't love cops as being responsible...

DHS, ICE Begin Body Camera Pilot Program With Surprisingly Good Policies In Place 30 December 2021 Following protests over killings by law enforcement officers, the Department of Justice decided it might be a good idea to equip more police officers with body cameras. In May 2015, it announced...

"Innocence isn't enough": Arizona urges the supreme court to send Barry Jones back to death row The case has far-reaching implications: Should new evidence be ignored by the federal courts even when it exposes a wrongful conviction? 30 December 2021 THE MORNING OF the oral argument in Shinn...

In 2021, Qualified Immunity Reform Died a Slow, Painful Death Despite bipartisan momentum at the federal level, Congress still couldn't get anything over the finish line. 30 December 2021 The year 2021 was widely seen, almost certainly foolishly, as the end of a dark era and the beginning of...

He Was a Board Member of the Oath Keepers. Now He’s Holding State-Approved Trainings for Law Enforcement in Texas. Richard Mack wants your sheriff to defy the government. 29 October 2021 On a glorious Saturday morning in October, about 75 people are gathered inside an airy warehouse on the...

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampart_scandal The Rampart scandal involved widespread police corruption in the Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (CRASH) anti-gang unit of the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart Division in the late 1990s. More than 70 police officers...

Investigation: Accidental shootings like one in Iowa show police training gaps 11 December 2019 When an Iowa mother tried to take her child from her husband during an argument on a snowy sidewalk in 2015, an officer stepped in to stop the scuffle, firing his weapon as a dog approached. The...

‘Reign of Terror’: Former SFPD deputy chief accused of turning small-town police force into personal fiefdom Investigation is underway as accusations fly regarding spending, nepotism and retaliation 9 April 2021 After 16 years with the Broadmoor Police Department, former chief Dave Parenti...

U.S. Post Office Taking Pictures of All Our Mail for Database 3 July 2013 More for that warm feeling of total security, as reported in the New York Times, about: the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program, in which Postal Service computers photograph the exterior of every piece of paper...

Big Trouble in Little Rock A Reformist Black Police Chief Faces an Uprising of the Old Guard 18 December 2021 1 - Backlash: On the morning of May 28, 2020, a Black sergeant with the Little Rock, Arkansas, Police Department woke up, turned on the news, and saw the George Floyd video for the...

Tenth Circuit Appeals Court Says Fourth And Sixth Amendment Rights Are Meaningless When National Security Is On The Line 17 December 2021 A case involving the first criminal suspect to be notified by the DOJ that evidence against him was derived from Section 702 surveillance has just reached...

WATCH: Cops Smack Man’s Phone Out of His Hand, Flip Him Off, Then Beat the Hell Out of Him — For Filming 22 December 2021 Filming the police is entirely legal, in every state. However, all too often, we will see police officers overstep their authority and arrest, attack, and assault innocent...

WATCH: Cop Breaks Innocent Elderly Man’s Hip, Cracks His Skull and Actually Goes to Jail for It 15 December 2021 A Cincinnati cop is actually being held accountable this week after a disturbing video showed him shove an elderly man so hard that he smashed his face on a concrete bench and...

Florida's Civil Asset Forfeiture Reforms Haven't Stopped the Shakedowns Despite civil asset forfeiture reforms in Florida, police are still finding ways to take people's stuff. 12 December 2021 On a May day in 2015, a task force of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents and Miami-Dade...