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US Postal Service Sued For Seizing ‘Defund Police’ Facemasks 6 June 2022 Two years ago, just as the COVID pandemic was beginning to radically transform day-to-day life for nearly everyone on the planet, the United States Postal Service decided to protect cops from passive criticism. One month...

FBI provides Chicago police with fake online identities for "Social Media Exploration" team Internal documents also reveal that police can take over informants’ social media accounts and pose as them online. 20 May 2022 Brian Campbell couldn’t sleep. It was May 31, 2020, and demonstrations...

8 days later his name has still not been released -- corrupt cops and the "thin blue line" are protecting their own! Off-Duty SJPD Officer Involved in DUI Crash 10 May 2022 A San Jose Police Department officer was arrested over the weekend for a drunk driving crash. A CHP report said the...

San Jose officer accused of masturbating inside family's home in latest case of alleged misconduct Another recent case was confirmed Thursday in which an SJPD officer allegedly traded a meth pipe in exchange for information. 13 May 2022 A San Jose Police officer was arrested Thursday and...

11 Insanely Corrupt Speed-Trap Towns Caught stealing from motorists, these towns disbanded their police forces or even disbanded their governments altogether. 8 May, 2022 CASTLEBERRY, ALABAMA: The Birmingham News recently investigated the tiny town of Brookside, Alabama, a place "with no...

WATCH: Cop Dumps 30 Rounds Into Unarmed Grandma, Executing Her as She Tried to Flee 1 May 2022 In 2019, the Stockton Police Department adopted a policy which “generally prohibits shooting at a fleeing vehicle.” Decisions “to fire at moving vehicles must be based on the most compelling...

Yes, It’s Difficult To Change Cop Culture, But Let’s Not Pretend It’s Too Expensive Or Impossible To Achieve Quickly 1 April 2022 The US Department of Justice has entered into many consent decrees with many, many abusive law enforcement agencies. These decrees have the force of law, supported...

Cop Who Arrested High Schooler on 'Terrorizing' Charges for Class Joke Gets Qualified Immunity A judge's blistering dissent is a reminder that this issue does not have to be a partisan one. 21 April 2022 A police officer who questionably arrested a high school student on "terrorizing" charges...

Former Western Michigan University police officer & wannabe pedophile Abraham Martin Hohnke School Cop Arrested for Trying to Pay a Child to Have Sex With Him in the Back of His Truck 19 April 2022 For 10 years, the students at Western Michigan University thought officer Abraham Martin...

Police Play Disney Songs To Keep Citizen Recordings Off YouTube A Santa Ana police officer is the latest official to use YouTube's copyright infringement algorithm as a means to evade accountability. 13 April 2022 If you have a noisy neighbor who plays loud music when you're trying to sleep...

D.C. Spent $2.5 Million in Pandemic Relief Funds on Parking Cops 24 March 2022 Pandemic funds used to hire parking cops, pay for prisons, build hotels. At a time when many residents were struggling due to job losses and loss of business, the District of Columbia ramped up efforts to wring...

The Supreme Court Says You Can Sue Cops Who Frame You on False Charges The previous standard barring such lawsuits made “little sense," wrote Justice Brett Kavanaugh for the majority. 5 April 2022 Police officers could frame people, file bogus charges, conjure evidence out of thin air—and, in...

Fresno Bans Journalists—and Everyone Else—From Filming Cops Clearing Out Homeless Camps The ACLU of Northern California is suing to overturn the ordinance. 6 April 2022 The city of Fresno, California, has been trying to prevent citizens from documenting sweeps of homeless encampments in town...

He Disarmed a Gun-Wielding Menace in a San Jose Taqueria. Then the Cops Shot Him. 30 March 2022 Police won't release body cam footage of disputed incident for 45 days. Kaun Green may have saved some lives. When a brawl broke out in a San Jose, California, restaurant last weekend, the...

WATCH: Cops Wake Up Entire Neighborhood, Blasting Disney Music to Avoid Being Posted to YouTube 7 April 2022 Last summer, police began a trend in which they would play copyrighted music while being filmed so those videos could not be posted on YouTube due to copyright issues. Fast forward to...

Faith Under Fire: A Pastor’s Legal Fight Against CBP Exposes a Reckless Surveillance Operation 6 March 2022 The sun was beginning to set as Kaji Dousa neared the border. It was two days into 2019, and the line she was about to cross separating San Diego and Tijuana was the site of a...

How AI-powered tech landed man in jail with scant evidence 5 March 2022 Michael Williams’ wife pleaded with him to remember their fishing trips with the grandchildren, how he used to braid her hair, anything to jar him back to his world outside the concrete walls of Cook County Jail. His...

Kids Are Back in Schools. Cops Shouldn't Be. Police are being asked to handle kids broken by failures of public schooling. 16 March 2022 It's no secret that bad policy all too often breeds more bad policy. After two years of pandemic-related disruptions to public schooling and the lives of...

WATCH: Father of 5 Handcuffed, Suffocated to Death By a Half Dozen Cops for Refusing Blood Test 18 March 2022 The words ‘I can’t breathe’ have become a rallying cry for those who advocate for an end to police brutality. In case after gruesome case, these words are captured on video as cops...

LAPD Police Commission Enrages Police Union By Enacting Minor Changes To Pretextual Stops 14 March 2022 Pretextual stops are law enforcement at its most shameless. The laws and the courts have blessed this activity, which involves cops claiming stops are justified for one reason while using...